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  1. Is the Internet an Emergent Public Sphere?Mark D. West - 2013 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 28 (3):155-159.
    Much has been made of the power of the Internet and related communication technologies to serve as a new public sphere in which democracy can flourish. The evidence, however, has been limited; like the telephone and the postal letter before that, the Internet has powers as a capable tool for organizing social action and protest. Otherwise, though, it seems to have been co-opted by commercial interests and to be used by the public for arguments concerning already settled opinions, a far (...)
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  • Cultural industry in the age of post-truth democracy.Hauke Brunkhorst - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (1):28-42.
    The truth potential of art is realized not only by great art (of educated elites) but also by the cultural industry that has become the art of the masses. Great art and cultural industry do not only contradict one another but often interpenetrate and overlap subversively. Especially in critical periods of crisis (and revolution) great art and cultural industry go together with political action. However, in more counterrevolutionary periods as nowadays post-truth democracy, Adorno's gloomiest interpretation of the cultural industry becomes (...)
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  • The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual propositions on the structural transformation of publics in labour policy.Heiner Heiland, Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (1):80-101.
    In this contribution, we argue that critical theories of the public sphere (in Habermas, but also in Negt and Kluge as well as Fraser) leave out the socially central field of labour and labour-political disputes, and that a reactualization and refocusing becomes necessary: We define the dynamics of globalization, commodification and digitalization as sequences of a renewed structural transformation of both social self-understanding and gainful employment. With the help of a multi-level model of labour-political publics and counter-publics, class mobilizations can (...)
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  • “Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology”: On Habermas’ reflections and hypotheses on a further structural transformation of the political public sphere.Sebastian Sevignani - 2023 - Constellations 30 (1):84-91.
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  • Progressive Social Movements and the Creation of European Public Spheres.Donatella Della Porta - 2022 - Theory, Culture and Society 39 (4):51-65.
    While the normative debate on European integration has addressed the importance of the construction of truly democratic institutions as well as the establishment of social rights at EU level, the role of progressive social movements has not been much debated. Building upon theorization and research in social movement studies, I argue that progressive social movements are indeed already contributing to the construction of European public spheres. Not one liberal (or bourgeois), public sphere but the proliferation of subaltern counterpublics could allow (...)
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  • Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices.Svenja Ahlhaus - 2021 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (5):703-725.
    Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 703-725, June 2022. In this article, I argue that Habermas’s method of rational reconstruction faces limitations when it comes to analysing newly emerging and contested political practices. As rational reconstruction aims to criticize existing practices by determining their normative meaning as reflected in the participants’ idealizing presuppositions, it reaches its limits where emerging and contested practices make it impossible to identify a shared self-understanding and a single participants’ perspective. Using the example (...)
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  • Cosmopolitan Democratic and Communicative Rights: The Danish Cartoons Controversy and the Right to Be Heard, Even Across Borders.Alexander Brown & Sune Lægaard - 2020 - Human Rights Review 22 (1):23-43.
    During the Danish cartoons controversy in 2005–2006, a group of ambassadors to Denmark representing eleven predominantly Muslim countries requested a meeting with the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to protest against the cartoons. Rasmussen interpreted their viewpoint as one of demanding limits to freedom of speech and he ignored their request for a meeting. Drawing on this case study, the article argues that it is an appropriate, and potentially effective, moral criticism of anyone who is in a position of (...)
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  • Beyond the Nation State: Europe as Communicative Space.Karl W. Schweizer - 2019 - The European Legacy 25 (4):475-480.
    Volume 25, Issue 4, June 2020, Page 475-480.
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  • A Public no Demos: What Supranational Democratic Legitimacy (in the EU and Elsewhere) Requires.Axel Mueller - 2017 - European Journal of Philosophy 25 (4):1248-1278.
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  • Powers of the Mask: Political Subjectivation and Rites of Participation in Local-Global Protest.Lone Riisgaard & Bjørn Thomassen - 2016 - Theory, Culture and Society 33 (6):75-98.
    Mask-wearing political protests have been global front page news for several years now; yet, almost no literature exists which attempts to engage the symbolic density and ritual role played by such mask-wearing acts. We argue that mask-wearing has political potentiality which relates to deeper-lying anthropological features of mask-wearing. The powers of the mask reside in the transformative ability of masks to unify and transcend key oppositional categories such as absence/presence and death/life, creating possibilities where conventional boundaries of the possible/impossible no (...)
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  • Power and the internet.Vittorio Bertola - 2010 - Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 8 (4):323-337.
    PurposeStarting from the end‐to‐end principle, a founding element of the internet's technical architecture, the paper aims to discuss its extension and effects at the social level. It shows how the internet moves power from governments and private entities to individual citizens, restructuring our societies and creating a new global stakeholder class – individual users of the internet. It connects the advent of this stakeholder class with a traditional principle of internet governance, “rough consensus”. It discusses advantages and risks of this (...)
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  • Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life.John B. Thompson - 2011 - Theory, Culture and Society 28 (4):49-70.
    High-profile political scandals are symptomatic of a profound transformation of the relations between public and private life that has accompanied and helped to shape the development of modern societies. While the distinction between public and private life is not unique to modern societies, the emergence of new media of communication, from print to radio, television and the internet, has altered the very nature of the public, the private and the relations between them. Both the public and the private have been (...)
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  • Is the World Social Forum a Transnational Public Sphere?Janet Conway & Jakeet Singh - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (5):61-84.
    In a number of recent articles, Nancy Fraser attempts to understand the World Social Forum within the framework of critical democratic theory. In this article, we examine the descriptive and normative aspects of Fraser’s theoretical framework, and explore the effects of projecting it upon the World Social Forum. We argue that while this theory may elucidate some features of the Forum, many of the Forum’s most challenging and innovative aspects are obscured and limited by Fraser’s framework. Not only, then, does (...)
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  • Abnormal justice.Nancy Fraser - 2008 - Critical Inquiry 34 (3):393-422.
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  • Disagreement without reconciliation: Democracy, equality and the public realm.Benjamin Arditi - 2009 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 12 (2):167-181.
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  • The theory of the public sphere as a cognitive theory of modern society.Hans-Jörg Trenz - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (1):125-140.
    The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a key contribution to political philosophy, media history, democratic theory and political economy – published almost 60 years ago – that left a deep imprint on the process of democratic consolidation of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the same time, the Habermasian model of the public sphere was used to test out the possibilities of democratisation beyond the nation-state. The theory of the public sphere was, however, mainly discussed as a contribution (...)
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  • Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser.Victor Kempf & Sebastian Sevignani - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (1):66-79.
    Following a workshop on ‘Wildening the public sphere’ with Nancy Fraser at the Berlin Centre for Social Critique in June 2022, we had the chance to continue the discussion via Zoom in November 2022. We start by illuminating the relation between ‘subaltern counterpublics’ and the public-at-large, the rise of right-wing counterpublics and the impact of so-called ‘social media’ on the public sphere. That brings us to the question how publics are situated within capitalism, and how they are able to politicize (...)
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