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Category: <span>Dispatches</span>

Dispatches

Category: Dispatches

Solidarity, and the Rise and Fall of the Public Sphere

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A Review of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz’s Media Events Twenty-five years after its publication, Dayan and Katz’s classic study of ceremonial television, Media Events, has continued relevance for understanding the politics of media. With the proliferation of cable television and digital media explosion, television is no longer the hegemonic media form it once was, and the media events they studied exist no more in the form that they studied …

Reflections on a Revolutionary Imaginary and Round Tables

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The new always appears in the guise of a miracle This is the prepared text answering the question “What do we really know about transitions to democracy?” for  the General Seminar of The New School for Social Research, March 19, 2014. It was a quarter of a century ago, in 1989, that a new kind of revolutionary imaginary emerged, one that promises a new beginning, and demonstrates the …

Searching for Hope? Look for Bridges with Kapias

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For some time already, I have been thinking about the stimulating image of a world of civility that I found in a novel written in the middle of the twentieth century by the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andric entitled The Bridge on the Drina. The bridge as envisioned by a 14th-century builder is not just a river overpass between Bosnia and Serbia, as it suddenly doubles in width in  …