Bücher der Reihe Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis

The essays in the volume re-examine the debate centred on the Habermasian notion of the public sphere and ask whether the structural transformations of the public sphere by new media technologies are an indication of a degenerate consumerist society, or that of a more egalitarian and democratic public culture.

This book explores the utopian spaces that have historically been created through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. The essays in the volume address non-Western histories of technopolitics, through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility.

The essays in the volume re-examine the debate centred on the Habermasian notion of the public sphere and ask whether the structural transformations of the public sphere by new media technologies are an indication of a degenerate consumerist society, or that of a more egalitarian and democratic public culture.

Essays in this anthology compare the interaction of social formations like race, gender, class and caste in the construction of social identities represented in literary and cultural texts.

A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These essays go beyond the institutional and formal descriptions of democracy to its underlying cultural context ¿ expressed both historically and analytically, descriptively and normatively.