Dictionary of Now #2 | Dipesh Chakrabarty & Eyal Weizman – FORUM

Dictionary of Now #2 - Dipesh Chakrabarty & Eyal Weizman –
FORUM April 11, 2016 7pm Lectures, discussion Within what forums
can the political evolve today? In the face of post-democratic
mechanisms of globalization, the crisis of the national state and
increasing restrictions on human rights and civil liberties, there
have been shifts in the places and practices of social negotiation.
There is an ever-growing distance between the spaces of global
politics and the networks of local political initiatives. Departing
from the idea of the Greek polis and Hannah Arendt's concept of
political acting as free, public negotiation, the historian Dipesh
Chakrabarty and the architect Eyal Weizman explore the term forum.