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Interviewing The Crisis - Art Is Open Source interviews Marc Garrett.

Submitted by marc garrett on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 17:16

Marc Garrett from Furtherfield.org interviewed by Art Is Open Source.

http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=27

The Decline of the Public Sphere

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 15:56

In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Jürgen Habermas (1962/1990) gives a historic account of the formation of the public sphere and its decline. There he argues that in the feudal system, while public events did happen, they were merely of a representational character. Everybody was present, but in a representational capacity only, there was no public discourse, no difference of opinion was allowed and all actual power was centralized in the institution of the souvereign/monarch. The events of public life followed a strict ceremonial protocol.

45 RPM / Revolutions Per Minute

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 13:53

Radio Art Histories Remixed, Maxi Single Version

Night and Day: Inside Nerdcore Central

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 18:27

Let me put it this way: generally speaking there are things implicit and things explicit -- and at the hackmeeting the overwhelming majority of things to know and find out were implicit. It is in the nature of the self-organised event with flat, or, rather no hierarchies that those things that matter do usually not come with a large banner in human readable code that explains everything. There is not really a spokesperson, there are few figureheads, even fame is implicit, is something to be known and shared between insiders. What is to be found out is mostly based on direct human relationships. Everything else is largely a question of the 'vibe'.