Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks

Ned Rossiter

doi:10.5130/csr.v11i2.3662

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Published: Oct 25, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v11i2.3662

Keywords:

democracy, state, civil society, processuality, the people, agonistic democracy, informationality

Ned Rossiter

University of Ulster, University of Western Sydney

Abstract

I start with the premise that the decoupling of the state from civil society and the reassertion of the multitudes over the unitary figure of ‘the people’ coincides with a vacuum in political institutions of the state. Against Chantal Mouffe’s promotion of an ‘agonistic democracy’, I argue that the emergent idiom of democracy within networked, informational settings is a non- or post-representative one that can be understood in terms of processuality. I maintain that a non-representative, processual democracy corresponds with new institutional formations peculiar to organised networks that subsist within informationality.

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2005): Italian Effects

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Italian Effects (Peer Reviewed)

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Ned Rossiter, University of Ulster, University of Western Sydney

Ned Rossiter is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies (Digital Media) at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. Ned also co-facilitates fibreculture, a network of critical Internet research and culture in Australia. <n.rossiter@ulster.ac.uk>

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Ned Rossiter, University of Ulster, University of Western Sydney