Editors:
Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

ZKM | Publication Program:
Ulrike Havemann, editor
Katharina Sacken, assistant editor

Production Team:
Miriam Stürner, Jens Lutz, Christiane Gerhold, Carmen Beckenbach, Silke Müller

Translations:
Robert Bryce, Sarah Clift, Stuart Kendall, Sandra Reid, Uli Nickel, Liz Carey-Libbrecht, Charles T. Wolfe, Marc Soisson, Rodney Stringer, Gloria Custance, Barbara Filser, April Julich Perez, Amy Jacobs, Jeremy Gaines, Marlies Salazar

Copy Editor:
Sally Bixby Defty

Cover and Layout:
Holger Jost

Lithography:
COMYK, Roland Merz

Printed and Bound:
Engelhardt & Bauer, Karlsruhe

© 2005

ZKM|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
and The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

All rights reserved.

Price: $ 45,00
ISBN 0262-12279-0

Introduction:
Bruno Latour From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik – or How to Make Things Public
Excerpt: Jonathan Swift on the Difficulty of Talking with Objects…

1. Assembling or Disassembling?

Elizabeth Edwards A Palaver at Tutuila Samoa, 1883. Two Photographs by Captain William A.D. Acland Philippe Descola No Politics Please Masato Fukushima On Small Devices of Thought: Concepts, Etymology and the Problem of Translation Amiria Henare WAI 262: A Maori “Cultural Property” Claim Angela Zito “This Is Not a Façade” Pascale Bonnemère, Pierre Lemonnier An Election in Papua New Guinea Pierre Lagrange Diplomats without Portfolios: The Question of Contact with Extraterrestrial Civilizations

2. Which Cosmos for Which Cosmopolitics?

Giuseppe Pavanello Good and Bad Government: Siena and Venice Simon Schaffer Sky, Heaven and the Seat of Powers Michael Hagner The Pantheon of Brains Anita Herle Transforming Things: Art and Politics on the Northwest Coast Elizabeth Edwards, Pete James “Our Government as Nation”. Sir Benjamin Stone’s Parliamentary Pictures Excerpt: John Dewey on the Pragmatist Good Government Thomas Locher Allegories of the Political

3. The Problem of Composition

Dario Gamboni Composing the Body Politic: Composite Images and Political Representation, 1651-2004 Simon Schaffer Seeing Double: How to Make Up a Phantom Body Politic Excerpt: William Shakespeare on the Parable of the Members and the Stomach Noortje Marres Issues Spark a Public into Being. A Key but Often Forgotten Point of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate Michel Jaffrennou, Thierry Coduys Mission Impossible: Giving Flesh to the Phantom Public Peter Cornwell „runners up“ – A Psychometric Installation for Exhibition Spaces Ismael Celis InterSections/ZKM. A Project. Denis Laborde Freedom for Music! Intuition and the Rule Ana Miljacki Classes, Masses, Crowds: Representing the Collective Body and the Myth of Direct Knowledge

4. From Objects to Things

Gísli Pálsson Of Althings! Barbara Dölemeyer Thing Site, Tie, Ting Place – Venues for the Administration of Law Graham Harman Heidegger on Objects and Things Richard Rorty Heidegger and the Atomic Bomb Oleg Kharkhordin Things as Res publica: Making Things Public Angela Zito Things Chinese: On wu Mara Mills Dewey’s Transactions: From Sense to Common Sense

5. From Laboratory to Public Proofs

Simon Schaffer Public Experiments Michel Callon Disabled Persons from All Countries, Unite! Bernard Reber Public Evaluation and New Rules for “Human Parks” Henning Schmidgen, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Circulations: A Virtual Laboratory and Its Elements Hanna Rose Shell Things under Water: E. J. Marey’s Aquarium Laboratory and Cinema’s Assembly Peter Galison, Rob Moss Wall of Science Pablo Jensen Making Electrons Public Inge Hinterwaldner “Actions of Interest“ in Surgical Simulators Alberto Cambrosio, Andrei Mogoutov, Peter Keating Making Collaboration Networks Visible Claude Rosental Making Science and Technology Results Public: A Sociology of Demos

6. The Great Pan Is Dead!

John Tresch ¡Viva la República Cósmica!, or the Children of Humboldt and Coca-Cola Excerpt: Karl Polanyi on Dogs Eat Dogs or The Fable of Sociobiology Vinciane Despret “Sheep Do Have Opinions” Jocelyne Porcher, Thierry Schweitzer About Pigs Donna Haraway Chicken for Shock and Awe: War on Words Chris S. Herzfeld What Is It Like to Be Face to Face with a Great Ape? Isabelle Mauz, Julien Gravelle Wolves in the Valley: On Making a Controversy Public Petra Adolfsson The Obelisks of Stockholm Werner Krauss Coastal Environment Made Public: Notes from the Field

7. Reshuffling Religious Assemblies

Joseph Leo Koerner Reforming the Assembly Olivier Christin Arguing with Heretics? Colloquiums, Disputations and Councils in the Sixteenth Century Christophe Boureux Dominican Constitutions Anne-Sophie Lamine Interfaith Celebrations, a New Rite? Patricia de Aquino Spokespersons of Gods

8. The Parliaments of Nature

Mario Biagioli Galileo’s Traveling Circus of Science Matthias Gommel Rhine Streaming Christelle Gramaglia River Sentinels: Finding a Mouth for the Lot River Jean-Pierre Le Bourhis Water Parliaments: Some Examples Cordula Kropp River Landscaping in Second Modernity Allan Sekula The Lottery of the Sea. A Film in Progress Cornel Bierens The Path of Milk Viestarts Gailitis Milky Way Excerpt: Farid ud-Din Attar on the Conference of the Birds

9. Which Assembly for Those Assemblages?

Valérie Pihet The Detroit Industry Murals. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) Wiebe E. Bijker The Politics of Water: A Dutch Thing to Keep the Water Out or Not Albena Yaneva A Building Is a “Multiverse” Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel Müller The Architectural Thing. The Making of “Making Things Public” Guillaume Monsaingeon The Glory of Tournai Bojidar Yanev Who Is Minding the Bridges? (A Personal Inquiry)

10. Follow the Paper-Trails

Susan S. Silbey, Ayn Cavicchi The Common Place of Law: Transforming Matters of Concern into the Objects of Everyday Life Philippe Geslin, Ellen Hertz Public International Indigenes Angelika Stepken The People of Karlsruhe – Constitutional Rights Square Anke te Heesen The Notebook: A Paper-Technology Peter Galison Making Things Secret Peter Galison Framed Secrets Peter Galison, Robb Moss Secrecy. Work-in-Progress toward a Feature-Length Documentary Film Laurent Pfister, Anne-Geneviève Hakim, Fréderique André-Rafatjah The Image, between Res privata and Res communis

11. What’s Political in Political Economy?

Richard Powers An Artificial Being Daniel Beunza, Fabian Muniesa Listening to the Spread-Plot Alex Preda The Stock Ticker Emmanuel Didier Releasing Market Statistics Bureau d’Etudes Capitalism Cartograms Franck Cochoy, Catherine Grandclement Chaffy Publicizing Goldilocks’ Choice at the Supermarket: The Political Work of Shopping Packs, Carts and Talk Pauline Terreehorst, Gerard de Vries The Parliament of Fashion Antoine Hennion, Geneviève Teil, Frédéric Vergnaud Questions of Taste

12. The Political Aesthetic of Reason

Lorraine Daston Hard Facts Lisa Pon Paint/Print/Public Barbara Cassin The Evidence of Phryne, or Phryne Stripped Bare by Rhetoric Even Frank Hartmann Humanization of Knowledge through the Eye Eden Medina Democratic Socialism, Cybernetic Socialism: Making the Chilean Economy Public Jessica Riskin Science in the Age of Sensibility Richard Aczel, Márton Fernezelyi, Robert Koch, Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak Reflections on a Table Emilie Gomart Political Aesthetics: Image and Form in Contemporary Dutch Spatial Politics Frédérique Ait-Touati Public Experiments: On Several Productions of Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo Tom Fürstner NARRATIVE DEVICE IV

13. Parliamentary Technologies

Robert Koch Re: Public Jean-Philippe Heurtin The Circle of Discussion and the Semicircle of Criticism Excerpt: Abbé Sieyes on the Infinite Parliament Nicolas Yazgi Stranded Bodies of Democracy. Cases from the Indian Himalayas Emmanuel Grimaud How to Make a Still Picture Speak and Walk. The Fabulous Destiny of a Gandhi Follower Ludger Schwarte Parliamentary Public Teresa Hoskyns Designing the Agon: Questions on Architecture, Space, Democracy and “the Political” Chantal Mouffe Some Reflections on an Agonistic Approach to the Public Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift, Helen Baker-Alder, Doreen Massey Centers Don’t Have to Be Points: Politics beyond State Boundaries Stephen Hilgartner, Michael Lynch, Carin Berkowitz Voting Machinery, Counting and Public Proofs in the 2000 US Presidential Election Ben Rubin Dark Source: Public Trust and the Secret at the Heart of the New Voting Machines Delphine Gardey Turning Public Discourse into an Authentic Artifact: Shorthand Transcription in the French National Assembly Jean-Noël Ferrié, Baudouin Dupret The Power of Representation: Parliaments of North Africa and the Middle East Christian Nold Legible Mob

14. A Search for Eloquence

Excerpt: Jean de la Fontaine on the Power of Fables Barbara Cassin Managing Evidence Noortje Marres, Richard Rogers Recipe for Tracing the Fate of Issues and Their Publics on the Web Excerpt: Jonathan Swift on the Tricky Art of Conversation XPERIMENT! What Is a Body / a Person? Topography of the Possible Andrew Barry, Lucy Kimbell Pindices Multiplicity BORDERDEVICE(S) Lorenza Mondada DOING BEcomING COLLECTIVE. The Constitution of Audience as an Interactional Process Sabine Himmelsbach Blogs. The New Public Forum – Private Matters, Political Issues, Corporate Interests Cyrille Latour Getting Together in the Cinema Laura Naudeix The Choirs in the Opera: Concocting Common Sense Excerpt: Bertolt Brecht on how Dictators Learn Their Rhetoric from Shakespeare

15. New Political Passions?

Peter Sloterdijk Dyed-in-the-Wool Citizens.Atmospheric Politics Homi Bhabha Still Life (on Ronnen Safdie’s photographs) Paul Jobin The Tragedy of Minamata: Sit-in and Face-to-Face Discussion Carbon Defense League MapHub: HEARD and MapMover Sebastian Fischer, Lasse Scherffig, Hans H. Diebner EyeVisionBot Warren Sack Agonistics: A Language Game Golan Levin JJ (Network Surveillance Tool / Empathic Data Visualization). A Carnivore Client by Golan Levin, May 2002 Boris Groys The Fate of Art in the Age of Terror Dominique Linhardt The Trials of the World – a Fiction Isabelle Stengers The Cosmopolitical Proposal Excerpt: Herman Melville on Bartleby or the Limit of All Politics

Conclusion

Excerpt: Thomas Hobbes on Leviathan Peter Weibel Art and Democracy. From Enchantment to Enactment