Publics and Counterpublics Warner MichaelPaperback softback
Publics and Counterpublics Warner MichaelPaperback softback Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can…
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Publics and Counterpublics Warner MichaelPaperback softback
Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can now seem universal. The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very different from other or earlier societies.
Publics exist only by virtue of their imagining. But it has not always been so. They are a kind of fiction that has taken on life, and very potent life at that.Publics have some regular properties as a form, with powerful implications for the way our social world takes shape; but much of modern life involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelation.
There are ambiguities, even contradictions in the idea of a public. As it is extended to new contexts and media, new polities and rhetorics, its meaning can be seen to change, in ways that we
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