Local cover image
Local cover image

Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy Trevor Garrison Smith

By: Publication details: London University of Westminster Press 2017Description: 155 pContent type:
  • texto (visual)
Media type:
  • electrónico
Carrier type:
  • recurso en línea
ISBN:
  • 978-1-911534-41-9
  • 978-1-911534-42-6
  • 978-1-911534-43-3
Subject(s):
Online resources:
Summary: The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Cover image Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Vol info URL Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds Item hold queue priority Course reserves
Libros electrónicos CDO Colección digital Libro electronico Acceso libre online pdf, epub, mobi 1000020174977

The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer

Local cover image
Share
Copyright© ONTSI. Todos los derechos reservados.
x
Esta web está utilizando la política de Cookies de la entidad pública empresarial Red.es, M.P. se detalla en el siguiente enlace: aviso-cookies. Acepto