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Lecture 21 November 2005 Citizenship between politics, culture & ideology Marianne van den Boomen

Lecture 21 November 2005 Citizenship between politics, culture & ideology Marianne van den Boomen. Level 3: heavy workload, indeed 20 hours a week, English Academic level: references and sources; analyzing, confronting and criticizing concepts Tip: s cholar.google.com, Omega

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Lecture 21 November 2005 Citizenship between politics, culture & ideology Marianne van den Boomen

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  1. Lecture 21 November 2005 Citizenship between politics, culture & ideology Marianne van den Boomen

  2. Level 3: heavy workload, indeed 20 hours a week, English Academic level: references and sources; analyzing, confronting and criticizing concepts Tip: scholar.google.com, Omega Lectures and seminars, active participation, reading (60-70 p.) Formats = weekly mini-essays Missed something? Compensate with substantial extra work Rough grades:Jan. 5th, Jan. 26th About the course NMNC

  3. LITERATURE 1. Book Re-reading popular culture 2. Reader: Incomplete! To be copied: 10 p. Fraser, 30 pp Chapter 5 David Trend 3. Online articles: Print or copy (course mailbox KNG 29)

  4. Individual Assignments 1. Min. 7 formatted min-essays (21 Nov.-16 Jan.) 2. Individual course review (3 Feb.) Formats: Comparative review of min. 2 articles/chapters Mini-essay, building block final paper Choose from: 1. motto, 2. critique, 3. reference, 4. authors background, 5. hot issue, 6. lecture, 7. debate Group Assignments 3. Presentation citizenship project (12 or 19 Jan.) 4. Paper on citizenship project (3 Feb.) Assignments/requirements

  5. Content of the course • Colaboration Womens Studies & New Media • Gender is an issue • New media is an issue, new = changing media • Cultural citizenship popular culture, mediated culture

  6. location, nation, state, nation-state politics, elections rules, regulation, law rights, duties culture, ideology public infrastructure, state and non-state media public debate, public sphere values, norms, habits traditions belonging, community participation, shared morality differentiation, assigning subject positions inclusion/exclusion on all the above levels What is citizenship about?

  7. 1.Rights: human, civil, political, & social rights 2.Public sphere: public infratstructure, public opinion, public debate, ‘popular culture’ 3.Subjection/subjectivation: surveillance and data gathering, discipline, normalization of subject positions 4.Inclusion/exclusion: based on subject positions defined by class, gender, color, sexuality, age, nationality, ability etc. 5.Democracy: political representation; equality and expression of difference; local and global structures 5 themes in the course

  8. Definition Citizenship is the sense of belonging to and participating in an abstract social whole, on a mediated level somewhere between politics and ideology.

  9. Greek city states Roman empire 18th century Republic of Letters French revolution (freedom, equality, fraternity) European citizenship? World citizenship? Netizenship? Cyborg citizenship? Not only nation-state

  10. digital, computerised (stand alone and connected) access to a wide range of information communication at relatively low costs space & time compression: almost instantanious, worldwide do it yourself-culture (DIY): producing information, tools and environments, creating new public/private spheres interactivity, connectivity, multimediality, virtuality distributed intelligence New media characteristics

  11. Tension between top-down/bottum-up Politics = top-down & bottum-up! Ideology = top-down & bottum-up! Top: not a univocal monolitical unity Bottum: not a univocal monolitical unity Top-down & bottum-up

  12. Political economy of communication (advertising, entertainment, media conglomerats) General political-economical tendency to privatization, deregulation, and commodification The emergence of a labour force of symbolic analysts, a.k.a. digerati or the virtual class The widening gap between the poor and the rich “It’s the economy, stupid.”

  13. the rise of a virtual class: ‘cognitive scientists, engineers, computer scientists, video-game developpers, and all other communications specialists’ laisser faire ideology, promoting an electronic marketplace instead of an electronic agora myths of the free market as a determinating force of wealth and democracy private ownership of estate and people (slaves) as the fundament of society Barbrook & Cameron

  14. Cultural-political contradictions… Revolution? What kind of? music.mp3

  15. Barlow’s Declaration of Independence • declaration of independence from all outside powers • intended to keep any state intervention out • recognizing only individual agency • assuming a inherent democratic and egalitarian domain • declaring no material constraints

  16. Critiques on Barlow • 60s heritage of utopian visions, as a merger of alternative hippie culture and entrepreneurship • disembodied Western platonic philosophy (free Mind, not material conditions or restrictions) • critique on notions of presumed inherency of liberating and democraticizing dynamics of ICT, in short: utopism

  17. Utopian perspective • no bodily or material constraints • autonomous new social formations • media monopolies broken • free floating minds, free speech • no state regulation needed • clean technologies • everyone sender/receiver • direct democracy (electronic agora) • new liberated citizenship

  18. Dystopian perspective • erosion of social cohesion by pseudo communities • cultural decline, trivial entertainment and crime • state surveillance and discipline everywhere • consumerism and commodification • exhausting natural resources • citizens reduced to consumers • exclusion, digital and other divides • state protects private ownership and slavery • big revolution of ownership relations needed

  19. Left • non-equality is not natural but social-economically induced • improving position of the poor • including minorities • citizenship: a matter of rights and public protection • state regulation and policies • collectivity and public goods above individual freedom

  20. Right • non-equality is natural • stimulating free market or elite power • law and order • citizenship: a matter of duties • minimum of state regulation • individual freedom or elite above collectivity and public goods

  21. Political spectrum from left to right communist -> marxist -> old left -> new left -> -> communitarian -> libertarian -> liberal -> new right/neo-liberal -> old right/conservative

  22. Indications political spectrum communist: total state planning and control marxist: struggle between capital and labor old left: political organisation of working class new left: inclusion minoritieS, alternative life styles communitarian: social cohesion in local civil society libertarian: individual freedom and independence liberal: free market, no law and order state new right/neo-liberal: free market, but law and order state needed old right/conservative: established elite, strong law and order state

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