Quantum Democracy: Re-Imagining Space, Time and Territory in Contemporary Politics.
In this lecture John Keane asks can democratic politics be re-imagined kaleidoscopically: understood in quantum terms of multiple interacting spatial frameworks in which peoples, with the help of their representatives, govern themselves and their ecosystems in differently-sized settings marked by different space-time rhythms? It explores why, against considerable odds, the spirit, language and institutions of democracy today survive and thrive in cross-border settings; and why the 21st-century future of democracy now vitally depends on challenging the scholarly flatlands by developing a quantum poetics and practical politics of democratic space.
