Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy

Bys: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

Another monumental ZKM publication, redefining politics as a concern for things around which the fluid and expansive constituency of the public gathers; with contributions by more than 100 writers and artists. In this groundbreaking editorial and curatorial project, more than 100 writers, artists, and philosophers rethink what politics is about. 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, we might ask, 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 ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262122790
• ISBN13: 9780262122795
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 1072 Pages
• Weight: 5.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 2.5" x 6.0"