[iDC] Books/texts on democracy

[Christian Fuchs]

For me, the most important and critical works on democracy are:

Macpherson, Crawford B. 1973. Democracy theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Macpherson, Crawford B. 1965. The real world of democracy. Oxford: 
Clarendon Press.
Pateman, Carole. 1970. Participation and democratic theory. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press.

These works tend to show how liberal democracy is bound up with 
capitalism and that we therefore need alternative notions and forms of 
democracy. Personally I have found these approaches useful for analyzing 
and criticizing notions such as eParticipation, digital democracy, 
participatory web, new web, social web, web 2.0, etc (see for example 
chapter 8 in my book "Internet and Society").

Best, Christian


Verina Gfader schrieb:
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> The Exploit, A Theory of Networks, by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene
> Thacker
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/galloway_exploit.html
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> Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago
> Press, 1958)
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> Antonio Negri, Time for Revolution
> (second part "Kair?s, Alma Venus, Multitudo")
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> Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2005). The Coming Community (1993)
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> Laclau, Ernesto & Mouffe, Chantal (2001, 2nd ed.) Hegemony and Socialist
> Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London, New York: Verso
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Sennett, Richard (1986) The Fall of Public Man, Orig. pub. 1977. London:
> Faber   
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>> ________________________________________
>> From: idc-bounces at mailman.thing.net [idc-bounces at mailman.thing.net] 
>> On Behalf Of George Siemens [gsiemens at elearnspace.org]
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>> Subject: [iDC] Books/texts on democracy
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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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Unified Theory of Information Research Group
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Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. 
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