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Fracking the Forum

55 Washington St
Jan 16 | Thu | 6:30 PM | $23.18
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With the approach of the inauguration we are taking a look at the deep structure of our public realm, and what we can do about it.

Democracy requires a forum: a space where people can share ideas, ask questions, disagree, and seek consensus. It fosters the unique forms of collective attention that make pluralist politics possible. But when the forum is digitized, privatized, and reengineered for corporate profit, the fragile work of self-government is crowded out by an extraction operation that fracks our minds and senses for ever-smaller bits of salable “time on device.” In the face of these changes—as the agora gives way to the algorithm—can we mount a collective form of resistance? Or are we compelled to carry on personal modes of opposition?

Join New York Review of Architecture and the Strother School of Radical Attention for a conversation about the status of attention and the public forum in a moment of political uncertainty.

Venue: 55 Washington St

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