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WikiNation: or Hyper-Cyprus

Page history last edited by Gary Hall 14 years, 9 months ago

WikiNation or Hyper-Cyprus, like The University 3G, is part of a series of "performative media" projects or "media gifts." These projects are gifts in the sense they operate as part of what has come to be known as the "academic gift economy" whereby research is circulated for free rather than as a market commodity. They are performative in that they do not endeavour to represent the world so much as have an effect in or on it. They are instances of media that produce the things of which they speak, in other words, and which are engaged primarily in and through their actual performance. Operating at the intersections of art, media, philosophy, and literary and critical theory, the different gifts in this series each in their own way experiment with the potential new media technologies hold for making affirmative, affective, singular, ethical and political interventions in the "here" and "now."

 

Hyper-Cyprus begins by analysing critically the usefulness of the recent political philosophy of Chantal Mouffe for reconceptualising ideas of peace and conflict. It takes as its focus for doing so the situation of the Middle East. It proceeds to show how Mouffe’s radical democratic politics is actually just another form of the liberalism of Habermas and Rawls she positions her theory against. Hyper-Cyprus then explores the potential digital media hold for making affirmative, affective, hyper-political interventions in specific contents and singular situations. In particular, it advocates using the wiki medium - hence the piece’s Wikipedia-like form - to experiment with new ways of organising institutions, cultures, communities and countries which do not uncritically repeat the reductive adherence to democracy, hegemony and Western, bourgeois, liberal humanism identified in Mouffe, but which can also be located in the institution of academic criticism more widely.

 

As such, Hyper-Cyprus is provided under the conditions of both open editing and free content. Readers/contributors/users are strongly encouraged to comment on, respond to, and debate with the text, the author and indeed each other on a section-by-section basis using the "Add a comment" facility (see below). But more than this, you are also free to edit, annotate, add, tag and link to, collaborate on,  re-post, distribute, forward, share, mash-up, and creatively re-draft, remix, reconstruct, reformat and reinvent this text or "nation" in any way you wish.

 

 

 

Contents

 

1. On peace and conflict

     1.1 The 6-step programme

 

2. On the political

     2.1 From political to moral

 

3. On the Middle East

     3.1 Terrorism

     3.2 Hrant Dink

     3.3 The question of Europe (and cosmopolitanism)

 

4. On the anti-political

     4.1 Antagonism vs. agonism

     4.2 The others of democracy

     4.3 Democracy

     4.4 Hegemony

     4.5 Mouffe as an anti-political liberal (and not all that pluralistic either)…

     4.6 … Western, bourgeois and American

 

5.  Performative media

     5.1 On historical movements, moments, eras, trends and turns

     5.2 Thinking Schmitt against Schmitt, Mouffe against Mouffe

     5.3 Creating, inventing, experimenting

     5.4 country x

 

6. Hyper-Cyprus

    6.1 Wikimedia

    6.2 University-generated media

 

Endnotes

 

References

 

 

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