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... spaces for the direct participation of citizens-common- ers. These institutions of local governance represent both a flight from pub- lic law and a flight from democracy. The vote in the referenda was hence also a vote against postdemocracy: this vote not only demands that private profit be thrown...

... communicative action, is relevant to our understanding of sovereignty. According to Rancière, consensual postdemocracy is the nihilistic polishing off of metapolitics and the real- ist absorption of all reality and truth into the category of the possible. The political—in contrast, for Rancière—is that which...