Diego Cerna · @da_cerna
23rd Feb 2015 from TwitLonger
Rancière sobre la opinión pública y las encuestas
"The utopia of postdemocracy is that of an uninterrupted count that presents the total of "public opinion" as identical to the body of the people. What in actual fact is this identification of democratic opinion with the system of polls and simulations? It is the absolute removal of the sphere of appearance of the people. In it the community is continually presented to itself. In it the people are never again uneven, uncountable, or unpresentable. They are always both totally present and totally absent at once. They are entirely caught in a structure of the visible where everything is on show and where there is thus no longer any place for appearance." - (Rancière 1999: 104)