Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance

Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (8):1123-1139 (2021)
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Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 8, Page 1123-1139, October 2022. Major debates on democratic renewal suggest two ways of eliciting social change: either by strengthening vertical practices of representation or by expanding horizontal forms of participation. The article develops an argument for why there is a need to rethink democratic resistance beyond the vertical–horizontal divide. If contemporary forms of resistance encompass a strategic interplay between vertical and horizontal practices, then an alternative framework is required to capture this logic. Filling this gap, the article introduces the concept of ‘horizontal experimentalism’. Such an idea comprehends an understanding of political means and ends as a continuum and as adjusting each other in an ongoing process of experimental inquiry.

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original Süß, Rahel (2022) "Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance". Philosophy and Social Criticism 48(8):1123-1139

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