Just what is the "participatory condition"? It is the situation in
which taking part in something with others has become both
environmental and normative. The fact that we have always
participated does not mean we have always lived under the
participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is
the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and
political activities that comprise simply being in the world have
been thematized and organized around the priority of participation.
Structured along four axes investigating the relations between
participation and politics, surveillance, openness, and aesthetics,
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age comprises fifteen
essays that explore the promises, possibilities, and failures of
contemporary participatory media practices as related to power,
Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring uprisings, worker-owned
cooperatives for the post-Internet age; paradoxes of participation,
media activism, open source projects; participatory civic life;
commercial surveillance; contemporary art and design; and
education. This book represents the most comprehensive and
transdisciplinary endeavor to date to examine the nature, place,
and value of participation in the digital age. Just as in 1979,
when Jean-Francois Lyotard proposed that "the postmodern condition"
was characterized by the questioning of historical grand
narratives, The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age
investigates how participation has become a central preoccupation
of our time. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College; Bart
Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE);
Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB - Free University
of Brussels) and Charles University in Prague; Julie E. Cohen,
Georgetown University; Kate Crawford, MIT; Alessandro Delfanti,
University of Toronto; Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of
Southern California; Rudolf Frieling, California College of Arts
and the San Francisco Art Institute; Salvatore Iaconesi, La
Sapienza University of Rome and ISIA Design Florence; Jason Edward
Lewis, Concordia University; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Graham Pullin,
University of Dundee; Trebor Scholz, The New School in New York
City; Cayley Sorochan, McGill University; Bernard Stiegler,
Institute for Research and Innovation in Paris; Krzysztof Wodiczko,
Harvard Graduate School of Design; Jillian C. York.
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