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July 30, 2024

🦋 A case for technical democracy

Kalervo N. Gulson

Democracy is a set of processes that create spaces for dissensus and radical equality. Greg Thompson and Kalervo N. Gulson argue that nowhere is the lack of democratic spaces more evident than in the field of technology and its impact on institutions and life

April 5, 2024

🦋 Critical Theory after Houellebecq

Shivdeep Grewal

Feelings are relevant to the study of democracy. Yet they prove difficult to encapsulate. Delving into the worlds of Michel Houellebecq, Jürgen Habermas and Emmanuel Macron, Shivdeep Grewal suggests an ‘experiential’ approach

March 21, 2024

🦋 What identity does democracy need? The necessity and danger of political polarisation

Simon Bein

Simon Bein postulates a new perspective on the multiplicity of understandings of democracy and political identities in democratic societies. He argues that democracies which recognise and balance competing political identities are less polarised

November 23, 2023

🦋 Is it post-democracy; or maybe authoritarian neo/liberalism?

Dimitra Mareta

'Democracy is in crisis'. We have heard this claim since the 1930s, and new terms regularly surface to describe democracy’s transformations through crisis. Of these terms, argues Dimitra Mareta, post-democracy and authoritarian neo/liberalism are the most challenging. While they describe either a strong or weak state, neither term captures the implications for the people living under such regimes

October 13, 2023

🦋 Feminism in protest camps: toward a 21st century feminist democracy?

Catherine Eschle

In a new edited book, Catherine Eschle argues that protest camps are important spaces of feminist struggle. Here, she asks: are protest camps a site of 21st century feminist democracy?

September 28, 2023

🦋 What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about democracy

Alex Prior

Examining the first 99 entries in our Science of Democracy series, Alex Prior identifies an asymmetry between references to people (demos) and power (kratos). Through a discussion of this asymmetry and its possible causes, he calls for increased attention to power, in the sense of its ability to effect change

August 31, 2023

🦋 Mnemonic democracy: the role of memory in politics

Jenny Wüstenberg

Memory is crucial for democracy, but not only because it can teach citizens important norms like tolerance and inclusion. Mnemonic democracy would also mean taking into account whether the views of the majority are represented and public memory is underpinned by legitimate state power, Jenny Wüstenberg writes

August 3, 2023

🦋 Herman Melville’s ruthless democracy

Jennifer Greiman

Herman Melville’s 'ruthless democracy' is a creative performance, argues Jennifer Greiman, which guides Melville’s experimental prose and poetry. This sought to reimagine democratic relations, possibilities, and ways of being as matters for aesthetic thought and work – with strong implications for political theory

July 12, 2023

🦋 Towards the DNA code of democracy

Janusz Ruszkowski

The most important thing for democracy is to establish a catalogue of its constant, repeatable and inalienable features – the so-called DNA of democracy. Such a DNA code could no longer be manipulated or diluted, because nothing without it could be called democracy, writes Janusz Ruszkowski

July 5, 2023

🦋 Between Luther and Montesquieu: the Church of Norway's democracy

Helge K. Nylenna

Democracy as a basic structure in organisational life is a given in most Western NGOs. However, church doctrine challenges the Montesquieuan principle that the body of the people possess the supreme power. Still, with reference to the Norwegian case, Helge Nylenna argues that, like other NGOs, churches can be democratic

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🦋 A case for technical democracy

🦋 Critical Theory after Houellebecq

🦋 What identity does democracy need? The necessity and danger of political polarisation

🦋 Is it post-democracy; or maybe authoritarian neo/liberalism?

🦋 Feminism in protest camps: toward a 21st century feminist democracy?

🦋 What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about democracy

🦋 Mnemonic democracy: the role of memory in politics

🦋 Herman Melville’s ruthless democracy

🦋 Towards the DNA code of democracy

🦋 Between Luther and Montesquieu: the Church of Norway's democracy

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