[Reader-list] New special issue: NO MEDIATION

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Online journal Re-public has just published a special issue titled "NO MEDIATION: Re-imagining democracy through art ". The issue explores the increasing association of art with the explosion of novel democratic mediums and forms . Articles include:   

 

Eyal Weizman - Beyond colonialism: Israeli/Palestinian space   < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=194 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=194> >

Architect Eyal Weizman discusses his new book, Hollow Land <http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/w-titles/weizman_e_hollow_land.shtml>  - an exploration of the political space created by Israel's occupation.  

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Blixa Bargeld - All (is) open again   < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=186 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=186>  >
Blixa Bargeld discusses Einsturzende Neubauten's new project which is being released without any kind of record label involvement.
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Peter Lunenfeld - Dispatches from the front: Battling for meaning in the war between downloading and uploading   < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=167 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=167+> > 
There is no end to the ways in which meaningful culture is more meaningful than mindless production, no matter how participatory, argues Peter Lunenfeld.  
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Matteo Stocchetti - Re-thinking the political in the age of ambivalence: Art, new media and democratic politics    < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=174 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=174+> > 
Matteo Stocchetti claims that the 'democratization of art' and 'political democratization' are two different processes and we should be careful not to confuse the two. 

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