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Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Autonomous Vehicles
1. The Mind and the Body
2. Problems with Selfhood
3. Dennett's Solution
4. Narratives and Consciousness
5. Darwin and Evolution
6. Genes and Memes
7. Late to the Party
Part II: Cultural Landscapes
8. The First Tools - Language and numbers
9. The Nature of Tools - Conviviality
10. Gamification - Shopping as Theatre
11. Selling Ourselves - Quantified Data
12. The Price of Fame - Film and Celebrity
13. Liking our Selves - Social Media
14. Buying the Culture - IP and Creativity
Part III: Making a Difference
15. Community, Citizenship, and Creativity
16. Codifying Culture
17. Cultural Democracy - A Definition
18. Cultural Democracy and Community
19. Cultural Democracy and Economics
20. Cultural Democracy and Politics
21. ALL Together Now
Acknowledgements
Continuing...
A Final Word about Language
About the author
Owen Kelly writes and researches as Principal Lecturer Emeritus in online media at Arcada, a university of applied science, in Helsinki. He has worked as a community artist, a cultural consultant, a soundscaper, and a multimedia programmer. He is the author of
Community, Art and the State,
Digital Creativity, and
Ambient Learning and Self Authorship, and has an ongoing interest in developing convivial tools that assist in the struggle for cultural democracy.
Summary
Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it.
