Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized,
measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around
the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make
participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposite
effect. We find ourselves suspicious of how participation extracts
our data or monetizes our emotions, and the more procedural
participation becomes, the more it seems to recede from our grasp.
In this book, Christopher M. Kelty traces four stories of
participation across the twentieth century, showing how they are
part of a much longer-term problem in relation to the individual
and collective experience of representative democracy. Kelty argues
that in the last century or so, the power of participation has
dwindled; over time, it has been formatted in ways that cramp and
dwarf it, even as drive to participate has spread to nearly every
kind of human endeavor, all around the world. The Participant is a
historical ethnography of the concept of participation,
investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes
today. It is a book that asks, "why do we participate?" And
sometimes, "why do we refuse?"
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