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“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
especially after the advent of electronic media, knowledge, place, and the public sphere begin to diverge. While local realities still loomed large epistemically and politically, there was a drift toward more abstract knowledge and more abstract communities (some might say “imagined communities”).
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
arrangements. Public
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
- Pre-modern information environments were locally shared common worlds mediated chiefly by our embodied experience.
- Modernity offered instead a de-situated public sphere built on a shared institutional and expert knowledge mediated by print and mass media.
- What we are now living through is the collapse of the modern arrangement and the emergence of
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
of me, but if I say so, understandable.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
destabilization of the self as its anchors in material culture slip.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
crisis of government in