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"contrary to what post-political theorists want us to believe, what we are currently witnessing is not the disappearance of the political in its adversarial dimension but something different. What is happening is that nowadays the political is played out in the moralregister. In other words, it still consists in a we/they discrimination, but the we/they, instead of being defined with political categories, is now established in moral terms. In place of a struggle between 'right and left' we are faced with a struggle between 'right and wrong'."
- Chantal Mouffe, On the Political, 2005.

#politics #theory #agonism

Anyone here have a good reading list for Bonnie #Honig and her theory of pluralistic agonism? Need to get a reference set put together. #agonism #pluralisticagonism #research

Our friends in the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) have an interesting CfP out!

Check it out in the link below 👇
CfP- Agonism: Conflicting Interpretations of the Past, Participation Practices, and Transforming Cultural Venues.

https://c2dh.uni.lu/news/cfp-agonism-conflicting-interpretations-past-participation-practices-and-transforming-cultural

#Agonism #heritage #museum

There are concerns that GPT3 was released without much thought for ethics accuracy & accountability. Fair.

But what is the alternative? That it remain in a shadowy room, new capacities that only *they* can engage and understand first hand? And then *those people and friends* decide what an ethical design looks like?

Having a messy public beta is the /condition of possibility/ for a public debate about how AI can be ethical and accountable.

#SocialShapingOfTechnology #agonism @sociology #STS

@fasterandworse Well, I suppose I can always block you for eternity... 🤣 🤣 😘

critique is the name of the game. note the #agonism in my #introduction

@schock@mastodon.lol @YBenkler good Q, inviting Qs! ;).
p.s. to introduce & hashtag a few good related terms and book, for anyone unfamiliar (I know @schock knows): "Adversarial Design…evokes and engages political issues…in the construction of objects, interfaces, networks, spaces and events. Most importantly, #AdversarialDesign does the work in expressing and enabling #agonism."
"Term was first used by #CarloDiSalvo [GIT, @cdisalvo.@twitter] in 2012 book Adversarial Design.

Table of Contents: Series Foreword ix Acknowledgments XV Design and Agonism r Revealing Hegemony: Agonistic Information Design 27 P 2 3 Reconfiguring the Remainder: Agonistic Encounters with Social Robots 57 4 Devices of Articulation: Ubiquitous Computing and Agonistic Collectives 87 115 5 Adversarial Design as Inquiry and Practice Notes 127 References 133 Index 141

Excerpt: Agonism in Theory and Design Taking its title from a chant used by protestors, the documentary This Is What Democracy Looks Like captured the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) demonstrations in Seattle, Washington, combining video footage from over a hundred individuals with narrations from participants (Friedberg and Rowley 2000). During these demonstrations, thousands of people including members of labor unions, school teachers, and environ- mental activists gathered in the streets of Seattle to oppose the policies of the WTO. The varied forms of demonstrations reflected the varied positions of the people who participated. Some groups organized marches and carried signs, others performed theater in the streets and drum circles in parks, and some engaged in civil disobedience. To declare that such a cacophony of voices and actions "is what democracy looks like" is bold and, to many, confusing and alarming. Such scenes run counter to North American ideas about democracy, which is exemplified by town meetings, party caucuses, and elections. But this chant declares that democracy is not simply order and rationality displayed in voting, structured decision making, and legis- lating, but that it also and necessarily is contentious affect and expression. Within political theory, the notions of agonism and agonistic pluralism provide grounding for the idea of democracy as intrinsically contentious

Design and Agonism 5 Theories of agonism emphasize the affective aspects of political relations and accept that disagreement and confrontation are forever ongoing. For political theorist Chantal Mouffe, this is a consequence of what she calls the 'paradox of democracy": we strive for a pluralism that we know can never be achieved. As she states (Mouffe 2000b, 15-16), What is specific and valuable about modern liberal democracy is that, when properly understood, it creates a space in which this confrontation is kept open, power rela- tions are always being put into question and no victory can be final. However, such an "agonistic" democracy requires accepting that conflict and division are inherent to politics and that there is no place where reconciliation could be definitively achieved as the full actualization of the unity of "the people." To imagine that pluralist democracy could ever be perfectly instantiated is to transform it into a self-refuting ideal, since the condition of possibility of a pluralist democracy is at the same time the condition of impossibility of its perfect implementation. Agonism is a condition of forever looping contestation. The ongoing disagreement and confrontation are not detrimental to the endeavor of democracy but are productive of the democratic condition. Through con- tentious affect and expression, democracy is instantiated and expressed.

Every year, I try to participate at Congregation, a small un-conference in Ireland held in...Cong.

This year, the theme was "Purpose." So, I submitted the following:
"Agonistic Purpose"
https://congregation.ie/agonistic-purpose-8-cong22/

#NotAcademic #Purpose #Agonism #Fun

Another day, another 2,998 duplicates to get vetted in Rayyan.ai. *sigh*

Let's do this...but first, #coffee.

#ScopingReview #AcademicChatter #Agonism

@mplouffe @kstrump I'm stoked to see all the incredible people on here :). Where are my #agonism peeps at?! 😂

#introduction

I’m a sociologist of science and technology with a focus long-term research infrastructures, and on the recent explosion of data science. #ethnography #histodons

I’m finishing up a book on an ecology of HIV/AIDS research infrastructures that have come to increasingly interlock over the past 35+ years #interoperability

tag heap:
#agonism #datastudies #CSCW #ecology #HIV #HCI #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #philosophy #epistemology #sciencestudies #sociotechnical #STS

#Introduction Post to be pinned.
(just realized I've not done this here 😂 )
PhD Candidate @ UCD Ireland
(MA/BA in Clinical Counseling/Psych)
Employed:
Office of Research - Dell
Responsible Computing Consortium member (ask me about joining)

Interests/Research:
#agonism
#adversarialagonism
#socialtransformation #data #systems #responsiblecomputing

#agonism

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