Maggie's Plan Page #3

I really like what you're doing, though.

Having a baby by yourself.

Not that it won't be hard

because it's gonna be f***ing hard.

But I admire your courage.

And I love babies.

I just don't like leaving my destiny...

- To destiny?

- Right.

But where will I go?

You can't just kick me out of our house.

- I have a question for you.

- Yeah.

Would you read the first

chapter of my book?

- Sure.

- I know that's weird.

It's just... I really want the

first reader to be like...

Well, you know how you said

you're a bridge between art and commerce?

- Mmm-hmm.

- Well, I need a bridge.

- Perfect. Give it to me. I'll read it.

- You will? I really would appreciate it.

- I don't mind at all.

- All right. Okay.

Okay, great. I'll read it tonight.

Perfect.

I gotta go. Shoot.

- Oh, sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t! I gotta go. I gotta go.

- Oh, oh.

- Um, I'll see you later. Thank you.

- Okay, bye!

What do you make

of the use of masks

in the Occupy movement?

The masked revolutionary

is a direct inversion

of the face of the demagogue,

the essentially fascist ideal

of the magnetic individual.

Sorry I'm late.

John Harding,

author of many books, including

Rituals of Commodity Fetishism

at the Tail End of the Empire.

So, John, of course, we've been

discussing the Occupy movement...

I can't help mentioning the irony

that Warner Bros. owns the copyright

on the V for Vendetta mask

that became the face of

the Occupy movement...

Whether we like it or not,

in this country, the most potent,

totemic symbols that we have

are cinematic and television-based.

So it only makes sense

that a radical popular movement

would try to subvert them...

Nevertheless, the reality of Occupy occurs

within the capitalist narrative

as a kind of subplot...

This sweeping cynicism of yours...

If by "sweeping cynicism,"

you mean not living in a dream,

then shoot me now.

Maybe the way we...

Nobody ever thinks

a revolution is going to happen

until three days after it's happened.

This is a leaderless movement.

It wasn't gonna operate on a schedule.

This was a genuine populist uprising.

- Yes, because...

- Absolutely.

But to return to the use

of masks in politics.

I am more interested in the possibility of

anonymity and group affiliation.

The "I am Spartacus" maneuver,

which has been

the primary tactical explanation

for the use of masks among various

20th and 21 st century protest movements.

Including the Zapatistas,

the black blocs of

the anti-globalization movement,

and, of course, P*ssy Riot.

Thank you.

Look, you don't have to help,

but will you please put that down?

- One moment, okay?

- Mmm-hmm.

- Ah, see? Finished.

- Great.

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