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  1. A capacity for rational dialogue?

    “Democracy depends on the belief of the people that there is some scope left for collectively shaping a challenging future.” Jürgen Habermas

    "His abiding concern was the state of democracy and the fear of backsliding into the exclusionary and violent social order..." >>
    nytimes.com/2026/03/14/books/j
    #PublicSphere #PublicDiscourse #communication #dialogue #nationalism #violence #democracy #CriticalTheory

  2. “You talkin’ to me”

    Taxi Driver at 50: Martin Scorsese’s film remains a troubling reflection of our times - a forlorn portrait of a society coming apart at the seams.

    “There are a lot of Travis Bickles, especially right now.”

    "They’re all talking to each other on the internet. When I first wrote about him, he was talking to nobody. He really was, at that point, the Underground Man. Now he’s the Internet Man."

    "It is a sobering thought."
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    theconversation.com/taxi-drive
    #ressentiment #violence #discontent #masculinity #rage #racism #misogyny #EconomicDecline #loss #ranking #valorisation #ImperialistViolence #inequality #progress #regression #WesternModernity #SocialAcceleration #film #internet #PublicSphere #OnEdge

  3. “On a digital network, public space is not a place (like Facebook), it is the interconnection of sovereign spaces owned and controlled by individuals.”

    – What is the Small Web

    ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s

    #SmallWeb #publicSpace #publicSphere #townSquare mastodon.social/@Daojoan/11404