ISBN:
978-1-3500-2834-0
Language:
English
Pages:
369 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Keywords:
Südliches Afrika Indien
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Europa
;
Amerika
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Meinung, öffentliche
;
Philosophie
;
Politik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Arabischer Frühling
;
Kapitalismus
;
Alternativbewegung
;
Widerstandsbewegung
Abstract:
The Public Sphere from Outside the West brings together established and emerging new voices from philosophy, literature, anthropology, history, migration studies and information technology to address the present reality of the public sphere. In the age where everyone is in the public and everything is visible, this volume creates a delay in which the internet of things, mass surveillance and social media are asked "What is/not the Public?" The essays bring to attention the formation of geo-politically and historically distinct public spheres from South Africa, India, America and Europe. Such formations are found not only in the postcolonial histories of print, photography, cinema and caricature but also those underway in the digital era, such as the Arab Spring, Occupy movements and Anonymous. Through critical engagement with philosophers such as Kant, Heidegger, Benjamin, Habermas and Arendt , the determining concepts of the Public Sphere-privacy, secrecy, reason, the people-are shown to be undergoing epistemological and practical ruptures. Demonstrating the necessity of these considerations to understand the world public that is rapidly transforming this concept in radical ways through technologies today, this is the first collection on the subject to feature an impressive range of international thinkers. Global and timely in outlook, it breaks new ground and changes our way of looking at politics in the 21st century
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From outside the West: Whence? Whither? -- Part 1 -- Secret Munitions: Genealogies of Crypto-Politics; Chapter 1. Democracy, consumerism and industrial populism; References; -- Chapter 2. Arcanum: The secret life of state and civil society; secrecy, war and the manhunt; Arcanum and the concept of the political; Security and obedience; Notes; References; -- Chapter 3. On secrets and sharing: Hegel, Heidegger and Derrida on the economics of the public sphere; Politics and recognition. Publicity and secrecy. Economic and technological globalization; Recuperating dwelling; Notes; References -- Chapter 4. On the relation between the obscure, the cryptic and the public; The obscure animal; The obscure as the degenerate; Resistance of the obscure; The obscure prince; Notes; References -- Part 2 -- Births of 'Public': Translating media, Travelling contexts; Chapter 5. Ambivalences of publicity: Transparency and exposure in K. Ramakrishna Pillai's thought; The setting: The state, the people and the population; Naming the public; The public and the political. Scandalous exposure and public decorum. Scandal as a mode of political criticism; Publicness: Sites of ambivalence; Notes; References; -- Chapter 6. The crisis of English studies and the public sphere in India; Introduction; Intellectuals, the media and activism; The university and structures of power; English Studies and the public sphere; The university and the public sphere; Anti-intellectualism; 'The aesthetic public sphere'; Implications of the production of dissent in mediatized worlds; Notes; References -- Chapter 7. Indian opinion and the Making of a Satyagrahi; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Notes --- References. -- Chapter 8. In search of a suburb: exploring the relation between city and village in India; Notes; References -- Part 3 - Seeing/doing: Mediatization, passive publics and dissents in images; Chapter 9. The colour of history: photography and the public sphere in Southern Africa; Introduction; Critical images; The colour of history; Colour divides?; Notes; References -- Chapter 10. Ravi Varma's many publics: circulation and the status of the 'artwork'; Art, artists and publics; Form and appeal; Of women and Gods; Sites of circulation; Notes; References -- Chapter 11. Personal convictions, public performance: representing Anna Hazare. Performativity and the saintly tradition; Graphic protest and the politics of visuality; The construction of identity; The community and the individual; Notes; References; -- Chapter 12. Looking for Habermas in cinema as popular entertainment -- cinema as public sphere with special reference to India; Introduction; What is the public sphere?; Cinema as public sphere; Political sphere and cinema; Private and the public of cinema; Transformations in the private and public in cinema --
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