(This is a shortened version of his keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, 18 September 1997. This article was first printed in CSD Bulletin Volume 5, Number 1 Autumn 1997) 1....
Read MoreAbstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. In...
Read MoreAn interview with Alberto Melucci, 1991, pp. 180-233, From Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier. Click here to read excerpt scanned in PDF format...
Read MoreNew Left Review I/179, January/February 1990 pp. 103-110 Warsaw. Wednesday December 7th. The eighth anniversary of martial law approaches. Foul-smelling fog blankets the city. The battered Russian-made taxi which fetches me from the airport clatters down potholed roads. Rows of grey apartment...
Read MoreBy John Keane, Public Life and Late Capitalism,Cambridge University Press, 1984. Chapter 2, pp. 30-69. This chapter has been scanned and it is available for download in PDF format More information about this book, including excerpts and notes can be viewed here....
Read MoreFrom Thesis Eleven, 1984, 8: 5-22. Please click here to read scanned PDF format...
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