A magazine of global perspectives
episode #14
O | OCCUPATION
What of oneself is lost—dispossessed—when one is possessed, owned and abandoned at the same time, by an occupier? Our episode on Occupation is perhaps Mutant’s most primal: rather than approaching occupation as a military concept, we deconstruct its strange political stability. We ask not what makes occupying forces so barbaric but instead what makes occupation so immovable? And what might become possible were it to be harnessed as a democratic strategy, an anchor for encampment, a new politics of immovability?