| Florian Cramer on Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:20:07 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Frank Rieger: We lost the War--Welcome to the World of Tomorrow |
Am Samstag, 07. Januar 2006 um 11:47:29 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Geert Lovink: > We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow. > By: Frank Rieger [...] > Democracy is already over > > By its very nature the western democracies have become a playground for > lobbyists, industry interests and conspiracies that have absolutely no > interest in real democracy. The "democracy show" must go on > nonetheless. Conveniently, the show consumes the energy of those that > might otherwise become dangerous to the status quo. The show provides > the necessary excuse when things go wrong and keeps up the illusion of > participation. Also, the system provides organized and regulated > battleground rules to find out which interest groups and conspiracies > have the upper hand for a while. I admire the perfect Carl Schmitt-ian (and by implication, Leo Straussian) rhetoric of this manifesto: The rhetoric of the emergency state, political friend-vs.-enemy antagonism, and its view of the status quo of democracy. -F -- http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70 gopher://cramer.plaintext.cc # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]