Democracy
by Sarah Wong · updated 1mo ago
Democracy
by Sarah Wong · updated 1mo ago
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“The issue lattice is sufficiently complex,” Agre writes, “that it will never emerge without high levels of political skill diffused throughout the society.”
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Agre was inverting it at MIT, calling for technology that invites people into developing skills through everyday politics.
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“Technology is not central; what is central are the choices that we make, each of us, in laying claim to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in our own lives.”47
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Agre reject the ultimate exit of Californian ambitions: the departure from bodily limits and social constraints.
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democracy cannot survive in stasis. Alexis de Tocqueville’s canonical view of “democratic revolution,” a gradual progression toward ever more deeply democratic institutions, refuses to deify any particular institutional form.
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No institution can fully manifest human equality.
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