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Book Review: Making things public: Atmospheres of democracy
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 1072 pp.
Space & Culture has previously posted on this book, Latour, democracy and the public.This is our second review of this tome: See Tonya Davidson’s review in issue 9.3.
Is a politics of things essential to public life today? [...]
Book Review: The Hatred of Democracy
The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière, trans. Steve Corcoran. London: Verso, 2006, 106 pp.
In The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière polemically addresses what he views to be a widespread trend of anti-individualism in the past and present canons of social, political, and philosophical thought. Crucially for Rancière, this trend of anti-individualism is part of [...]
Meanderthaling To and Fro
Contemporary mobile technologies — cell-phones, Blackberries, etc. — are resulting, I’m sure, in an increase in inter-personal collisions (connections?). The human, it seems, has difficulty navigating inner and outer worlds at the same time. This state of techno-obliviousness results in a new type of subject (or quasi-agent?): the Meanderthal. Read more about this phenomenon at [...]
Tagged cyborg, flaneur, meanderthal, mobility, urbanRenovations + new feed
Please excuse the mess around here as we complete our migration to Wordpress, and don’t forget to subscribe to our new Feedburner feed!
All the Blogger content has been imported, but it’ll take some time to properly categorise all the posts, and we need to get this template looking the way we want. Still, we figured [...]