TY  - BOOK
AU  - Latour,Bruno
AU  - Weibel,Peter
TI  - Making things public: atmospheres of democracy 
SN  - 0262122790
AV  - JA66 .M27 2005
U1  - 320.01 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass., [Karlsruhe, Germany]
PB  - MIT Press, ZKM/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Representation (Philosophy)
N1  - 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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