Intriguing excerpt about Habermas. I think it’s important to point out the misreading of public sphere as being for “intellectuals”. The following is the first several lines from his article on the public sphere:
“The Concept. By "the public sphere" we mean first of all a realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed. Access is guaranteed to all citizens.”
Sent from mySelf Great to meet so many people at the forefront of what they think is righ
and good to her that someone is reading/talking about Habermas! (Hello Jurgen from Liberationtech)
He contributed to shape the political consciousness of at least two generations, but has been misunderstood/mislabelled/misrepresented
Some references
ürgen Habermas may be the foremost
intellectual in Europe. Since the 1960s his scholarship has set research
agendas in philosophy, sociology, and history, while his newspaper
articles and interviews have steered public debates on topics from the
memory of the Holocaust to the Iraq War. He may also be the foremost
intellectual of Europe, advocating for the continent’s economic and political integration. In recent years, as that integration has stalled, one might have
expected Habermas’s public interventions to gain in urgency. Instead,
the opposite has happened: Although he has been as philosophically and
politically productive as ever, his work has seemed to lose its
relevance. Political developments against which he has struggled for
decades, from populist nationalism to the erosion of the welfare state,
seem more intractable than ever, while problems on which his political
theory has little purchase, such as the growing influence within Europe
of an illiberal and undemocratic China, appear ever more pressing. Still
eminent in the academy but increasingly marginal outside it, the
theorist best known for his notion of the “public sphere,” in which
intellectuals influence politics by shaping public opinion, risks
becoming the most compelling counterexample to his own ideal.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 7:10 PM Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes < [email protected]> wrote: BTW and on another note, I just started reading a tiny paperback by Jürgen Habermas - a “digest” of the current “Public Sphere” as refracted by his lifelong research on the topic. This is considering that his works are quite “thick!😂!” He’s 94 years old, and I realized he’s of the same generation as Noam Chomsky! I studied sociology in college but didn’t really read any of his works even though he was a Frankfurt School god, probably because he’s German and I was fascinated by French theorists😈. After all, in his inaugural lecture at the College de France, Foucault paid tribute to his predecessor in the chair, Jean Hyppolite, by stating that German students read Hyppolite‘a translations of Hegel’s work to understand him!😈
Anygüeys, here is the title of the book, a bit difficult to find in English:
A New Structural Transformatior of the Public Sphere and Deliberative
Politics
Translated by Ciaran Cronin
It paraphrases his first and most read work, and it promises to be “essential reading” to understand modern “culture.”
Regards / Saludos / Grato
Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (equal preference) On Apr 28, 2024, at 11:30 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> wrote:
¡No pos wow como dicen en Texas Spanglish!
Amazing work, viva GIS. I wish we had something like that for North Texas, mapping the same and then some (for example, worker abuse as reported to Labor Department agencies).
I’m the executive director of Opening Doors ( https://www.odisinc.org), and my particular interest is that undocumented immigrant women and workers in the U.S. victims of such crimes can get immigration legal remedies! A practical benefit coming out of such heinous crimes!
Ok, back to finishing up pro se asylum applications for 3 Afghan sisters and virtual TPS applications for Venezuelans in Colorado😎 Regards / Saludos / Grato
Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (equal preference) On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 7:35 PM María Angela Petrizzo Páez < [email protected]> wrote: Thank you!
We have been working since 2006 in what we call "feminizing technologies", we have developed activities such as women in technology forums, a project with blind women, and since 2015 we have been promoting good practices to prevent gender-based digital violence inside feminists organizations and people. Last year, we also conducted a research to characterize gender-based digital violence in our country.
Mariangela.
Dear Mariángela,
It's great to have you here. What projects are you or your group working on; what ideas are you thinking about?
Kate Krauss Hi!
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I believe it is important to consider the intersectional factors that affect the process of technology adoption, for that reason, I work from a feminist perspective of technology.
Mariángela
Hi, Welcoming the new design, I hope this could offer further opportunities to network and find solutions to the world's global issues.
Best wishes,
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-- ¡El sol de Venezuela nace en el Esequibo!
A quienes conservan la esperanza que no es lo último que se pierde, sino lo primero que se siembra y, por tanto, lo más radical.
El único modo de vencer el secuestro del conocimiento
es comprender sus razones.
La manera de revertirlo,
es hacernos hackers de los secuestros cotidianos
a cambio de no morir sin saber lo que somos
¡Piensa para vivir,
actúa para hackear!
Cada día, una acción procomún a la vez. “Tengo horror de aquellos cuyas palabras van más allá que sus actos”
Albert Camus
“El poder, lejos de estorbar al saber, lo produce.” - Michael Foucault Usuario Linux # 498889
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