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The article opens up with a discussion about two scientific attitudes towards the interrelation between politics and social networks: practical and discursive. Starting with an endeavor to problematize the very possibility of politics on social networks, the second, discursive attitude, is investigated. First, argued is the fact that there are two breaks between political action and social networks: the absence of continuity between politics and media, and the agency-structure break. In either case, the intermediary link is discourse, which produces certain subjectivity of a political agent. Next, Foucaldian theory of discourse and subject is applied in order to examine the discursive resources that are used by the user to construct itself as the subject of politics. Finally, two symptomatic examples of medialized political actions on social networks, namely " share if care " and changing the color of the profile photo, are analyzed in attempt to prove that " media " (rather than " political ") component prevails, which reinforces a critical view on political actions on social networks.
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A neorepublican cultural citizenship: beyond Marxism and liberalism
2011 •
Judith Vega
"The idea of cultural citizenship is often associated with a present-day context of multiculturalism, and seen as a novel issue for political philosophy. Within political philosophy it has been mainly conceptualised within a liberal tradition focussing on (cultural) rights. The concept also features in cultural studies, to articulate the importance of artistic and media practices to citizenship. This article aims to orient the debate to wider theoretical concerns, and to a long-standing political-philosophical interest in the relation of politics and culture. It proposes a ‘broad view’ of cultural citizenship, which moreover locates cultural citizenship in concerns about the public sphere. It revisits historical philosophical positions on the relation of politics and culture, viz those of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill. The distinct conceptual models ensuing from their work both expound ‘broad views’, which take the relation between politics and culture to impact on all citizens. The article subsequently discusses a recent Dutch policy report on cultural citizenship, which shows that these models still have topical relevance. Next, a fourfold grid is elaborated of weak and strong, positive and negative views on how citizenship is to be related to issues of culture. The article concludes by arguing for a neorepublican approach of cultural citizenship that adopts a ‘weak positive’ view and may repair the conceptual drawbacks of both the liberal and Marxist views.""
Public Administration
Culture Governance: Governing Self-Reflexive Modernity
2004 •
Henrik Bang
"Cultural Politics", Central European Pragmatism Forum, June 6-11, 2016, University of Venice
Brendan Hogan, Scott L Pratt, Mougan Carlos, Matteo Santarelli, Armen Marsoobian, Aleksandra Lukaszewicz, Rosa M. Calcaterra, Dorota Koczanowicz
The Central European Pragmatist Forum is grateful for the support of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the Università Ca’Foscari.
On the Production and Maintenance of Discursive Power: Cultural Policy Beyond the Nation-State
2008 •
Tim MacNeill
Contrary to current academic thinking, I argue that cultural policy is not in decline but has simply changed form. The ubiquity and vitality of such policies have been obscured from our vision because we do not actually know what we are looking for. This is the case because we have never established a theoretically informed definition of cultural policy. I offer such a definition here, and suggest that once such an optic is mobilized cultural policy reappears as an essential, vital, ever-present, contentious, and powerful postmodern social phenomenon. It is mobilized locally, nationally, and internationally through and around markets by agents who wish to produce, contest, or maintain fields of discursive power.
Societas/Communitas
A Brief Outline of Issues Related to the Democratisation of Culture: A Contemporary Perspective
2018 •
Marek Czyżewski
The aim of this paper is to outline the range of issues related to the democra-tisation of culture in light of modern cultural phenomena. The starting point is Karl Mannheims concept of the democratisation of culture. A more specific picture appears in the course of an evaluative examination of the standpoints represented by Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann against the reality of contemporary culture, but also influenced by the Foucauldian approach to processes of securitisation (provision of security in social life). Another important thread within this paper is the objection to the unchallenged affirmation predominating over social studies of the processes of the democratisation of culture.
