Making Things Public
by Peter Weibel (Editor), Bruno. Latour (Editor)
ISBN-10: 0262122790
ISBN-13: 9780262122795
$55.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Mit Pr
Published on
Sep 1, 2005
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
6.00x2.50x9.75 Inches
Weight
5.95 Pounds
About the Book
Another monumental ZKM publication, redefining politics as a concern for things around which the fluid and expansive constituency of the public gathers; with contributions by more than 100 writers and artists. In this groundbreaking editorial and curatorial project, more than 100 writers, artists, and philosophers rethink what politics is about. In a time of political turmoil and anticlimax, this book redefines politics as operating in the realm of things. Politics is not just an arena, a profession, or a system, but a concern for things brought to the attention of the fluid and expansive constituency of the public. But how are things made public? What, we might ask, is a republic, a res publica, a public thing, if we do not know how to make things public? There are many other kinds of assemblies, which are not political in the usual sense, that gather a public around things ...