je me touche

<p>This book is an attempt to read to respond to the Occupy Movement in four movements. Opening with a reading of Flann O’Brien’s evocative short story ‘John Duffy’s Brother’ it opens the dossier of the generative powers of imagination: not just in opening possibilities in the world but that what is brought forth is always already a world onto itself. This is followed by a reading of Hermann Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’ with a particular focus on the utterance « I would prefer not to » ; not just as a phrase of negative resistance but as a potential challenge as a seductive challenge. The third movement is an attempt to directly respond — if such a thing is even possible — to the Occupy Movement in all of its potentiality: in no way shape or form does the text attempt to explain it; instead it attends to it in all of its possibilities unknowabilities absurdities even — <em>en bref</em> as an event. It ends with an attempt to reflect on what it means to speak of something especially an event — through and alongside the slippery figure of the subject the « I ». </p>