Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory最新文献

{"title":"A Political Theology of Sortition","authors":"Artemy Magun","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"404-414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance","authors":"Christopher Senf","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12786","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"368-370"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Against Desert: Mysticism, Ableism, and the Level Playing Field","authors":"Tom Malleson","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"427-437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Oligarchic Unconscious of Liberal Republicanism","authors":"Udeepta Chakravarty, Jochen Schmon","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"232-244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are Social Imaginaries Immune to Ideology Critique?","authors":"Yves Winter","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"255-263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corruption and Global Justice","authors":"Valentin Beck","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"550-551"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Slow Down: the Degrowth Manifesto","authors":"Dominic Roulx, Matthias Fritsch","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"375-377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age pp. 281–295. $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-286577-9","authors":"Frank I. Michelman","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"540-542"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Media, Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere","authors":"Antoine Sander","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12773","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In April 2022, Barack Obama was invited by Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center to deliver a keynote address on the “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm.” The former US president made the trip to the “heart of the Silicon Valley,” as he put it, to issue a stern warning: social media are “one of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening” (Obama <span>2022</span>). Coming from someone widely recognized to have employed digital technology to great effect in his presidential campaigns (Cogburn and Espinoza-Vasquez <span>2011</span>; Harfoush <span>2009</span>), this statement echoes a broader disenchantment with the Internet's democratic promises. Gone are the days when the Web was seen as a panacea to democratic deficit. Only a decade ago, social and political theorists predicted that new, networked, communicative processes would improve collective decision-making, challenge the top-down logic of mass media, and provide activists with means to resist excessive state authority (Castells <span>2013</span>; Shirky <span>2009</span>). Today, social media are most often associated with misinformation, the rise of populism, polarization, and democratic decay (Bimber and Gil de Zúñiga <span>2020</span>; Boulianne et al. <span>2020</span>; McKay and Tenove <span>2021</span>; Sunstein <span>2018</span>).</p><p>Underlying these debates is the question of digital technology's impact on politics. Like newspapers two centuries ago or broadcast media in the past century,1 social media have altered the functioning of representative democracies in manifold ways. At the empirical level, extensive research has explored whether they favor the creation of “echo chambers” (Barberá <span>2020</span>; Dubois and Blank <span>2018</span>; Garrett <span>2009</span>), whether they amplify radical content (Halpern and Gibbs <span>2013</span>; Huszár et al. <span>2021</span>), or whether increased social media use induces polarization (Bail <span>2021</span>; Boxell et al. <span>2017</span>; Dubois and Blank <span>2018</span>; Yardi and Boyd <span>2010</span>).</p><p>For their part, political theorists have overwhelmingly attempted to make sense of the impact of digital technology on democracy with reference to Jürgen Habermas's work on the public sphere (Chambers and Gastil <span>2021</span>; Dahlgren <span>2005</span>; Dean <span>2003</span>; Dommett and Verovšek <span>2021</span>; Fuchs <span>2014</span>; McKay and Tenove <span>2021</span>; Sevignani <span>2022</span>). This should not come as a surprise since Habermas was the first to comprehensively theorize the importance of the public sphere to democracy and dedicated considerable attention to the constitutive role of media in structuring it (Habermas <span>2015</span>). However, the substantial evolution of his theories over four decades and his later contributions to the deliberative tradition of democratic thought have also muddied the waters and led many theorists to conflate the publ","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"330-342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Affective Representation: Social Media's Implications for Political Representation","authors":"Tobias Lappy","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12772","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Citizens who do not want to be represented are a challenge for conventional representative claim-makers, but this does not mean the end of representation as such. Post-representative movements such as the <i>Gilets Jaunes</i> rejected any notions of representation, yet they produced medially and politically recognized spokespersons. The <i>Gilets Jaunes</i> movement organized and mobilized their physical protests digitally, and what fueled the digital messages of new representative entrepreneurs were not interests or identities, but affective experiences (Rosanvallon <span>2022</span>, 88–104; Le Bart <span>2020</span>, 40–56). The case of the <i>Gilets Jaunes</i> draws attention to a particular form of representative claims: <i>affective representative claims</i>. They shift the key dynamic of representation from claim-making to represent a political cause or a socio-political identity to claims that are centered around speaking for collectively shared affective states. These claims allow one to only speak for oneself <i>while</i> simultaneously being able to speak for others due to the indeterminacy and universality of affect and emotion. In the context of widespread distrust in parties and institutionalized representation, affective representative claims give insight into new forms of organizing politically disaffected citizens.</p><p>Despite the intense affectivity of contesting institutionalized representation (Magni <span>2017</span>; Granjon <span>2021</span>; Flinders and Hinterleitner <span>2022</span>; Sullivan <span>2021</span>, Celis et al. <span>2021</span>) and notions of affective polarization in Western democracies (Reiljan <span>2020</span>; Hobolt et al. <span>2021</span>), constructivist theories overly focus on how elite actors employ affective cues in their representative claims to mobilize constituencies (Mouffe <span>2022</span>; Disch <span>2021</span>, Saward <span>2010, 2020</span>; Brito Viera <span>2015</span>; Knops and de Cleen <span>2019</span>, 172), and thus overlook how affective representative claims can empower <i>non-elite actors</i> to challenge and contest conventional forms of representation.</p><p>Understanding affective forms of representation is important not only because of the high affectivity of the current political constellation but also due to the structural change of the public sphere induced through social media. The dissemination of authorship widens the scope of representative claim-makers and potential audiences (Habermas <span>2022</span>), and the affective affinity of social media (Sunstein <span>2017</span>; Papacharissi <span>2015</span>; Staab and Thiel <span>2022</span>; Hindman <span>2018</span>) has the potential to bring “affective publics” together (Papacharissi <span>2015</span>), who produce their own representatives in turn. Investigating the representative dynamics that emerge from the affective architecture of social media gives insights into new forms of collectivization an","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"343-355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12772","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}