Atmospheres of Democracy
ed. by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
- Editor(s)
- Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel
- Publication, year
- Karlsruhe ; Cambridge, Mass. : ZKM : The MIT Press, 2005
- Scope
- 1072 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.
- ISBN
- 0262122790
In a time of political turmoil and anticlimax, this book redefines politics as operating in the realm of things. Politics is not just an arena, a profession, or a system, but a concern for things brought to the attention of the fluid and expansive constituency of the public. But how are things made public? What is a republic, a res publica, a public thing, if we do not know how to make things public? There are many other kinds of assemblies, which are not political in the usual sense, that gather a public around things—scientific laboratories, supermarkets, churches and disputes involving natural resources like rivers, landscapes, and air. The authors of Making Things Public ask what would happen if politics revolved around disputed things. Instead of looking for democracy only in the official sphere of professional politics, they examine the new atmospheric conditions—technologies, interfaces, platforms, networks, and mediations that allow things to be made public. They show us that the old definition of politics is too narrow; there are many techniques of representation—in politics, science, and art—of which Parliaments and Congresses are only a part. (Re: Anthropocene)
- Person as subject
- Otto Neurath
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 3: Sociale Praktijk
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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