Making things public : atmospheres of democracy / edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public -- Excerpt: Jonathan Swift on the Difficulty of Talking with Objects -- 1. Assembling or Disassembling? -- A Palaver at Tutuila Samoa, 1883. Two Photographs by Captain William A.D. Acland -- No Politics Please -- On Small Devices of Thought. Concepts, Etymology and the Problem of Translation -- WAI 262. A Maori "Cultural Property" Claim -- "This Is Not a Facade" -- An Election in Papua New Guinea -- Diplomats without Portfolios. The Question of Contact with Extraterrestrial Civilizations -- 2. Which Cosmos for Which Cosmopolitics? -- Divisionem sententiae postulare. Self-laceration -- Good and Bad Government: Siena and Venice -- Sky, Heaven and the Seat of Power -- The Pantheon of Brains -- Transforming Things. Art and Politics on the Northwest Coast -- "Our Government as Nation". Sir Benjamin Stone's Parliamentary Pictures -- Excerpt: John Dewey on the Pragmatist Good Government -- 3. The Problem of Composition -- Composing the Body Politic. Composite Images and Political Representation, 1651-2004 -- Seeing Double. How to Make Up a Phantom Body Politic -- JJ -- Reflections on a Table -- Excerpt: William Shakespeare on the Parable of the Members and the Belly -- Issues Spark a Public into Being. A Key But Often Forgotten Point of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate -- Mission Impossible. Giving Flesh to the Phantom Public -- InterSections/ZKM. A Project -- Freedom for Music! Intuition and the Rule -- Classes, Masses, Crowds. Representing the Collective Body and the Myth of Direct Knowledge -- Excerpt: Thomas Hobbes on Leviathan -- 4. From Objects to Things -- Of Althings! -- Thing Site, Tie, Ting Place. Venues for the Administration of Law -- Heidegger on Objects and Things -- Excerpt: Martin Heidegger on the Etymology of "Thing" -- Heidegger and the Atomic Bomb -- 100 Suns. Military Photography Collected by Michael Light -- Things as Res publicae. Making Things Public -- Things Chinese: On wu -- Dewey's Transactions. From Sense to Common Sense -- 5. From Laboratory to Public Proofs -- Public Experiments -- Disabled Persons of All Countries, Unite! -- Public Evaluation and New Rules for "Human Parks" -- Circulations. A Virtual Laboratory and Its Elements -- Things under Water. E.J. Marey's Aquarium Laboratory and Cinema's Assembly -- Wall of Science -- Making Electrons Public -- "Actions of Interest" in Surgical Simulators -- Making Collaboration Networks Visible -- Making Science and Technology Results Public. A Sociology of Demos -- 6. "The Great Pan Is Dead!" -- Viva la Republica Cosmica! or The Children of Humboldt and Coca-Cola -- Excerpt: Karl Polanyi on Dogs Eat Dogs or the Fable of Sociobiology -- "Sheep Do Have Opinions" -- Wolves in the Valley. On Making a Controversy Public -- About Pigs -- Chicken for Shock and Awe: War on Words -- What Is It Like to Be Face to Face with a Great Ape? -- The Obelisks of Stockholm -- Coastal Environment Made Public. Notes from the Field -- 7. Reshuffling Religious Assemblies -- Reforming the Assembly -- Arguing with Heretics? Colloquiums, Disputations and Councils in the Sixteenth Century -- Dominican Constitutions -- Interfaith Celebrations, a New Rite? -- An Assembly of Humans, Shells and Gods -- 8. The Parliaments of Nature -- Galileo's Traveling Circus of Science -- Rhine Streaming -- River Sentinels. Finding a Mouth for the Lot River -- Water Parliaments: Some Examples -- River Landscaping in Second Modernity -- The Lottery of the Sea. A Film in Progress -- The Path of Milk -- Milky Way -- Excerpt: Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar -- 9. Which Assembly for Those Assemblages? -- The Detroit Industry Murals. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) -- The Politics of Water. A Dutch Thing to Keep the Water Out or Not -- A Building Is a "Multiverse" -- The Architectural Thing. The Making of "Making Things Public" -- The Glory of Tournai -- Who Is Minding the Bridges? (A Personal Inquiry) -- 10. Follow the Paper-Trails -- The Common Place of Law. Transforming Matters of Concern into the Objects of Everyday Life -- Public International Indigenes -- The People of Karlsruhe. Jochen Gerz's Constitutional Rights Square -- The Notebook: A Paper-Technology -- Removing Knowledge -- Blocking Things Public -- The Image, between Res privata and Res communis --

11. What's Political in Political Economy? -- An Artificial Being -- The Stock Ticker -- Listening to the Spread Plot -- This Announcement Appears as a Matter of Record Only! Notes on The New Germany Found Inc / Universalia Non Realia Sed Nomina -- Releasing Market Statistics -- Capitalism Cartograms and World Government -- Publicizing Goldilocks' Choice at the Supermarket. The Political Work of Shopping Packs, Carts and Talk -- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds -- Cuddly / We Are the Children -- The Parliament of Fashion -- Questions of Taste -- 12. The Political Aesthetic of Reason -- Hard Facts -- Paint/Print/Public -- The Evidence of Phryne, or Phryne Stripped Bare by Rhetoric Even -- Humanization of Knowledge Through the Eye -- Democratic Socialism, Cybernetic Socialism. Making the Chilean Economy Public -- Science in the Age of Sensibility -- Political Aesthetics. Image and Form in Contemporary Dutch Spatial Politics -- Public Experiments. On Several Productions of Bertolt Brecht's "The Life of Galileo" -- 13. Parliamentary Technologies -- Re: Public -- The Circle of Discussion and the Semicircle of Criticism -- Excerpt: Abbe Sieyes on the Infinite Parliament -- Stranded Bodies of Democracy. Cases from the Indian Himalayas -- How to Make a Still Picture Speak and Walk. The Fabulous Destiny of a Gandhi Follower -- Parliamentary Public -- Designing the Agon. Questions on Architecture, Space, Democracy and "the Political" -- Some Reflections on an Agonistic Approach to the Public -- Centers Don't Have to Be Points. Politics beyond State Boundaries -- Voting Machinery, Counting and Public Proofs in the 2000 US Presidential Election -- Dark Source. Public Trust and the Secret at the Heart of the New Voting Machines -- Spin. A Documentary on Political Media -- Turning Public Discourse into an Authentic Artifact: Shorthand Transcription in the French National Assembly -- The Power of Representation: Parliaments of North Africa and the Middle East -- Legible Mob -- 14. A Search for Eloquence -- Excerpt: Jean de La Fontaine on the Power of Fables -- Managing Evidence -- Excerpt: Jonathan Swift on the Tricky Art of Conversation -- Pindices -- Communiculture -- BEcomING COLLECTIVE. The Constitution of Audience as an Interactional Process -- Excerpt: Bertolt Brecht on How Dictators Learn Their Rhetoric from Shakespeare -- The Chorus in Opera. Concocting Common Sense -- Getting Together in Cinema -- Narrative Device IV -- Borderdevice(s) -- What Is a Body / a Person? Topography of the Possible -- Fair Assembly -- Blogs. The New Public Forum - Private Matters, Political Issues, Corporate Interests -- Recipe for Tracing the Fate of Issues and Their Publics on the Web -- The Chronofile-Society -- 15. New Political Passions? -- Atmospheric Politics -- Instant Democracy: The Pneumatic Parliament -- I Am a Revolutionary, 2001 / Everything You've Heard Is Wrong -- Lungs: Slave Labour -- Allegories of the Political -- MapHub: HEARD and MapMover -- Agonistics: A Language Game -- The Fate of Art in the Age of Terror -- The Trials of the World - a Fiction -- Still Life -- The Tragedy of Minamata. Sit-in and Face-to-Face Discussion -- The Cosmopolitical Proposal -- Excerpt: Herman Melville on Bartleby and the Limit of All Politics -- Conclusion -- Art and Democracy -- Inserts -- Elisabeth Bronfen: The Birth of the Glamourous Star as an Optical Illusion. Busby Berkeley's Dames -- CYKLOOP: The World's First Mobile Virtual-Reality Center -- Sebastian Fischer, Lasse Scherffig, Hans H. Diebner: EyeVisionBot -- Yoann Le Claire: Fabien Lerat, Theatre -- Jenny Marketou: Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission 21st Street, NYC -- Appendix -- Works in the Exhibition -- Biographies of the Authors -- Index.

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