[iDC] Books/texts on democracy

[Verina Gfader]

The Exploit, A Theory of Networks, by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene
Thacker
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/galloway_exploit.html

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1958)

Antonio Negri, Time for Revolution
(second part "Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo")

Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2005). The Coming Community (1993)


Laclau, Ernesto & Mouffe, Chantal (2001, 2nd ed.) Hegemony and Socialist
Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London, New York: Verso


relation to contemporary art, e.g.: post-concepts/critiques of
"relational aesthetics"
e.g. Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): Verksted #2,3, 2004. “How to look at Art-Talk
– How to look at Aesthetics – How to look at Capitalism.” Edited by
Jonas Ekeberg, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo 2004.

Royal College of Art (2000) Democracy: Socially engaged Art Practice,
Compiled and edited by Mark Beasley, Ann Coxon, Emma Mahony, Emily
Pethick. London: Royal College of Art


Sennett, Richard (1986) The Fall of Public Man, Orig. pub. 1977. London:
Faber   








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> Hi,
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> What books or texts would list members suggest as “must reads” on 
> topics of democracy, equality, and personal liberty in relation to 
> the state? I’m familiar with the usual crowd: Locke, Rousseau, 
> Mill, Hamilton, Paine, Tocqueville, Schumpeter, etc.
> 
> George
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