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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The information balance of power has changed, of course. A generation ago, the public could exist only as a passive audience. Information was dispensed on the industrial model: top down and one to many. That was the great age of the daily newspaper and famous anchormen on the model of Walter Cronkite. The advent of digital platforms, in a sense, cr
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C’est à eux qu’il pensait en écrivant l’article qui lui a coûté son job. À Moscou ou Leningrad, ils étaient poètes, peintres, musiciens, de vaillants under qui se tenaient chaud dans leurs cuisines, et maintenant, à New York ils sont plongeurs, peintres en bâtiment, déménageurs, et ils ont beau s’efforcer de croire encore ce qu’ils croyaient au déb
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Limonov (Fiction) (French Edition)
Matt Bluemink • From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future | Blue Labyrinths
Robert D. Putnam.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
In the early 1990s, a long-simmering urban planning movement finally found its legs. For thirty years, a small group of urban advocates had grown weary of merely expounding the virtues contained in Jacobs’s book and decided to get organized. In 1993, the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) had their first meeting. Its founders included the influential
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Culture and government are products of consciousness. That is, consciousness creates the social system.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
Margaret Canovan a bien résumé la position de ces auteurs libéraux des années 1950 : « avertis par les découvertes de la théorie des sociétés de masse, ils avaient peur des ravages que les masses pourraient causer si elles participaient en effet à la politique57 ». Elle aurait cependant pu préciser que cette peur du peuple n’est pas confinée aux tr
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