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Occupation Culture is the story of a journey through the world of recent political squatting in Europe, told by a veteran of the 1970s and '80s New York punk art scene. It is also a kind of scholar adventure story. Alan W. Moore sees with the trained eye of a cultural historian, pointing out pasts, connections and futures in the creative direct action of today's social movements. Based on five years of travel and research, Occupation Culture gives scholarly attention to squatting. The rich histories of creative work that this movement enabled are almost entirely unknown.

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Occupy wasn't just a movement, it is a long-standing strategy and, frankly, a form of living. Alan W. Moore has seen firsthand more squats and occupations than anyone, and he brings his sensibility to bear on this global phenomena. A must read for occupiers, whether artist, activist or renter. - Nato Thompson, curator at Creative Time, editor of Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 Reporting on close to forty years of exploits Alan W. Moore's Occupation Culture is no academic treatise but a Picaresque adventure story filled with both detailed observations and broader reflections on the political and cultural significance of art and squatting that stretches across the Atlantic from the United States to Europe. - Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture

"""Occupy wasn't just a movement, it is a long-standing strategy and, frankly, a form of living. Alan W. Moore has seen firsthand more squats and occupations than anyone, and he brings his sensibility to bear on this global phenomena. A must read for occupiers, whether artist, activist or renter."" - Nato Thompson, curator at Creative Time, editor of Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 ""Reporting on close to forty years of exploits Alan W. Moore's Occupation Culture is no academic treatise but a Picaresque adventure story filled with both detailed observations and broader reflections on the political and cultural significance of art and squatting that stretches across the Atlantic from the United States to Europe."" - Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture"

Reporting on close to forty years of exploits Alan W. Moore's Occupation Culture is no academic treatise but a Picaresque adventure story filled with both detailed observations and broader reflections on the political and cultural significance of art and squatting that stretches across the Atlantic from the United States to Europe. - Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture

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