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Democracy and revolution on the Internet

The aim of the paper is to address the question of democracy on the Internet. Time that Slavoj Žižek named as “the year of dreaming dangerously”, and which Badiou interpreted as “the rebirth of history” was deeply entangled with the revolutions and activities organized on the Internet. So the understanding of the Internet as a public sphere is fundamentally important for understanding of the contemporary democratic processes. However, the Internet more and more acts as the symptom of the problem of public sphere, than as a free platform for sharing and distributing information. The paper take the initial cue as a possibility for departure from model of political pluralism actual in social theory of the Net, a model that promoted the universality of the Net through the concept of identity politics, and investigate different theoretical concepts of politics founded on the notion of antagonism.

democracy ; Internet ; social networking ; hegemony ; public sphere ; free software

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