From On the River
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy
This is a great collections of essays and ideas that are unique in the way they present numerous ideas of relevance to the interests of civic studio. public space, assembly of people, structures of assembly, politiks of things (dingpolitik).
The book is catalogue for an exhibit co-curated by it's author Bruno Latour at the ZKM in Germany.
Dingpolitik One of the principle ideas is that we overlook the way 'things' mean politically. This loss causes confusion when such things have political effect and we miss them, but also represents a great loss in terms of how we might form public life. As artists - and in the civic studio - this is of great significance. Things have more significance than just being functional or aesthetic. We may use read Latours Essay and Introduction to Making Things Public: DINGPOLITIK or the Politics of Things.
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