Im Zeichen des Hashtags. Demokratische Praktiken unter algorithmisierten Bedingungen

Koster, Ann-Kathrin

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“…Subjects and themes that for a long time were successfully excluded from the public space of discourse have gained access to it; but thanks to fragmentation, it seems that they are being successfully excluded from “one’s own” discourse again. The algorithms through which the new social media are largely controlled (see Koster 2020) function in many respects like a mostly opaque, but popular, tool of discourse avoidance. Habermas completely disregards these sources of conflict proper to the lifeworld and the corresponding intention to avoid discourse, so that he fails to paint a complete picture of the structural transformation of the public sphere.…”

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The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication

Kempf

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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The contemporary proliferation of “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” seems to render obsolete the notion of a public sphere in the singular. In my article, I would like to argue against this view: Following Jürgen Habermas, “the public sphere” can be understood as the concomitant horizon of communicative action, while the latter permeates society as a whole. On the basis of this socio-philosophical approach, the omnipresent tendencies toward fragmentation appear as reactive attempts to ward off this socially established and context-transcending context of discussion. Habermas himself, however, has never adopted this perspective. Instead, he interprets the various symptoms of the decline of the public sphere—including its fragmentation—as the result of a “colonization of the lifeworld” by economic, bureaucratic, and technological system logics. However, on the basis of the concept of “systematically distorted communication,” which was still crucial for Habermas’s early work, it is possible to reconstruct how the lifeworld context of communicative action, out of which the public sphere emerges, is not only corroded and cut through from the outside by system logics but also exhibits its own dialectic of the refusal of discourse and the overcoming of this refusal. The fragmentation of the public sphere that we are confronted with today can be theoretically interpreted and politically addressed as a precarious standstill of this dialectic.

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Section: The Colonization Thesismentioning

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The public sphere in the mode of systematically distorted communication

Kempf

2023

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Im Zeichen des Hashtags. Demokratische Praktiken unter algorithmisierten Bedingungen

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