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"Canonizing" and "talking" magazines
Alternative publishing in the Turkish context
There are magazines that simply mirror the cultural environment and those that open up new channels of expression -- "canonizing" and "talking" magazines respectively. Publisher Süreyyya Evren outlines how "talking magazines" in Turkey can move beyond their niche audience to reach broad readerships. [more]
The disposal of democracy
Interview with Jacques Rancière
While the western democratic system still serves a prototypical function for the rest of the world, internally it is faced with a range of challenges. The most serious of these is an attack from a power elite that has nominated itself the "true guardian of democratic values". [more]
The violence of participation
Spatial practices beyond models of consensus
An architectural response to the need to find a form of co-existence that enables conflict to work as a productive confrontation. Markus Miessen on the necessity to break with the "consensus machine" [more]
This blogging business nowadays
Spectacularization of the "blogosphere" and citizen journalism
The blogging movement's claim to empower the "netizen" is being undermined by the commercialization and professionalization of the "blogosphere". This necessitates a rethinking of the concept of citizen journalism, writes Krystian Woznicki. [more]
The art of not becoming accustomed to anything
Precarious employment in flexible capitalism
The vast reserve army of workers in precarious employment are the avant-garde of post-Fordism, constantly opening up new avenues for self-exploitation. [French version added] [more]
In digital Death Valley
Net/Language - B@bel, Aymara.org, and the Internet as language graveyard
Campaigns for online multilingualism fail to see the Internet as an environment for the development of critical net-languages and so pre-empt the death of small languages. [more]
Participatory art
A paradigm shift from objects to subjects
The new tendency towards participatory art is a response to philosophical redefinitions of community and to demands to make visible marginalized groups. [more]
The end of the miserable quest for the self
Brain research, determinism, and new promises of salvation
Ten years ago, the Russian futurologist Leo Nefiodov predicted that the health industry would take over from information technology as a motor for growth. People started listening more to Nefiodov when the "New Economy" bubble burst. [more]
Islands in the Net
From non-places to reconquered anchorages of the avant-garde
With the spread of the Internet, utopia was given a location in cyberspace. It was just a question of exploring, surveying, and settling this new continent. [more]