I am haunted by a line a student said in a class last spring. We were trying to make sense of the concept of civic life, of democratic space as something that occurs as relations among people, as something that could be a resource for change. This is the kind of power that Hannah Arendt… Continue reading A City Turned Inside Out
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Connecting New Media and the Political Unconscious
In two podcasts this week I have had the delightful opportunity to talk with colleagues from two distinct worlds about themes ranging from the political unconscious to new media. Early this week Brad Rourke, whom I know through our mutual association with the Kettering Foundation, engaged me in a conversation on the subject of his… Continue reading Connecting New Media and the Political Unconscious
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