Coming out of the city on the train one morning, I passed by Occupy Frankfurt — maybe three dozen large tents, a concentrated but steadfast group. It was pouring rain — my run from the tram to the main train station left me soaking…

“The ruling class in the United States,” as McKenzie Wark puts it in the recent special issue of Theory and Event on the Occupy movement, “is less and less one that makes things, and more and more one that owns information and collects a rent from it.” Every time you buy a CD or DVD, even every time…