Reassuring Democracy
Summary
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Democracy
Winter 2018
Esse proposes a critical reflection on the concept of democracy in order to explore its inherent contradictions and its real lived fallout, as well as the role that art can play within it. By bringing together multiple, open, and possibly divergent positions, the feature section addresses the urgent need to better understand art’s role in the current political context in order to potentially foster a desire to participate in a new democracy.
Editorial
Feature
Democracy Without Guarantees
Democratic Art
The Gift of Listening: From Speakers to Listening Agents
Probing the Body Politic: Limits, Memory, and Anxiety in Art after Democracy Can no Longer be Assumed
(Re)Negotiating Every. Now. Then‘s Invisible Centre: Institutional White Spatiality
To Walk Together: Democracy in Movement?
Multitudes, Swarms, Communities1
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Cover: Dan Lam
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Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas