Politicizing Digital Space : Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy

The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjec...

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Autor principal: Trevor Garrison Smith
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Publicado: University of Westminster Press 2017
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