http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2013/02/on-un-publics-former-publics-future-publics-almost-publics-observers-and-genealogies/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2013/02/on-un-publics-former-publics-future-publics-almost-publics-observers-and-genealogies/comment-page-1/#comment-26376 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:44:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=17631#comment-26376 This is an interesting and useful analysis, but I think you underestimate the public character of audience-ness. Physical audiences (e.g., in a performance hall) construct performances in myriad ways and help establish the genre and content of the performance. Similarly audiences constituted through technical means (recorded music, electronic media, etc.) show elements of publicness (Oeffentlichkeit) constituted precisely through their common engagement with the content and the medium, as scholars as diverse as Adorno, Benedict Anderson, and Michael Warner have demonstrated.

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