By Bruno Latour

During this groundbreaking editorial and curatorial venture, greater than a hundred writers, artists, and philosophers reconsider what politics is ready. In a time of political turmoil and anticlimax, this ebook redefines politics as working within the realm of things. Politics isn't just an area, a occupation, or a method, yet a priority for issues delivered to the eye of the fluid and expansive constituency of the general public. yet how are issues made public? What, we would ask, is a republic, a res publica, a public factor, if we don't know the way to make issues public? there are numerous other forms of assemblies, which aren't political within the traditional feel, that assemble a public round things—scientific laboratories, supermarkets, church buildings, and disputes related to normal assets like rivers, landscapes, and air. The authors of Making issues Public—and the ZKM convey that the booklet accompanies—ask what may take place if politics revolved round disputed issues. rather than searching for democracy merely within the authentic sphere politics, they research the hot atmospheric conditions—technologies, interfaces, structures, networks, and mediations that permit issues to be made public. They express us that the outdated definition of politics is simply too slim; there are various thoughts of representation—in politics, technology, and art—of which Parliaments and Congresses are just a part.

The authors comprise such famous thinkers as Richard Rorty, Simon Schaffer, Peter Galison, Richard Powers, Lorraine Daston, Richard Aczel, and Donna Haraway; their writings are followed through excerpts from John Dewey, Shakespeare, rapid, los angeles Fontaine, and Melville. greater than 500 colour pictures rfile the hot proposal of what Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel name an "object-oriented democracy."