Democracy unrealized [this volume contains all contributions to Documenta 11 - Platform 1, "Democracy Unrealized", a series of conferences and lectures, held in Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts, March 15 - April 20, 2001, and in Berlin, House of World Culture

Documenta 11 consisted of five platforms. The first four platforms addressed specific issues at different venues in cooperation with various partners. The exhibition in Kassel was the fifth platform. The publications for Documenta11 are published by Hatje Cantz Publishers. They are comprised of four volumes of the collected platform lectures, a commissioned study of urban conditions in Latin America (edited by Armando Silva), the exhibition catalog, a photo documentation of the exhibition, and a short guide to the exhibition. Introduction -- Democracy Unrealized: Alternatives, Limits, New Horizons. Democracy, Globalization, And Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity, Relativism, And The Liberal State / Akeel Bilgrami -- Deepening Liberal Democracy / Bhikhu Parekh -- The Prospects Of Radical Politics Today / Slavoj Žižek -- For An Agonistic Public Sphere / Chantal Mouffe -- Democracy, Capitalism, And Transformation / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Dialectics Of Sovereignty: Justice, Minorities, Human Rights, Citizenship. Global Justice And The Failure Of Deliberative Democracy / Upendra Baxi -- The Roma And Democracy: A Nation Without A State / Sean Nazerali -- Inequality, Democracy, And Parliamentary Discourses / Ruth Wodak -- Unrealized Democracy And A Posthumanist Art / Iain Chambers -- Counter-politics: Direct Action, Resistance, Civil Disobedience. New Rules Of The New Actonomy 3.0 / Florian Schneider/kein Mensch Ist Illegal --^ The State Of Hate In America: The Growing Conflict Between Identity Politics And Multiculturalism / Mark Potok -- An Eclectic Atlas Of Urban Europe / Stefano Boeri/multiplicity -- Arquitectos Sin Fronteras-españa (asf-e) / Marta Calsina And Elsa López/arquitectos Sin Fronteras-españa -- Demokratische Offensive / Isolde Charim, Gerald Eibegger, Robert Misik, And Rudolf Scholten/demokratische Offensive -- Enacting The Unrealized: Political Theory And The Role Of Radical Democratic Activism / Oliver Marchart -- Democracy In The Center And Global Deomcratic Critique / Enrique Dussel -- The Subject Of Politics, The Politics Of The Subject / Cornelia Klinger -- Beyond Diversity: Cultural Studies And Its Postcommunist Other / Boris Groys -- Outlook: The Political Discourse Of Democracy. Globalization And Democracy / Michael Hardt And Antonio Negri -- Democracy, Economics, And The Military / Manuel De Landa -- Democracy De-realized / Homi K. Bhabha --^ Awaiting The Beautyful Ones / Wole Soyinka -- Deomcracy Between Autonomy And Heteronomy / Ernesto Laclau -- Insearch Of Dynamic Republicanism For The 21st Century / Zhiyuan Cui -- Liberal Democracy And Its Slippages / Harbans Mukhia. Edited By Okwui Enwezor ... [et Al.]. This Volume Contains All Contributions To Documenta 11, Platform 1, 'democracy Unrealized,' A Series Of Conferences And Lectures, Held In Vienna, Academy Of Fine Arts, March 15-april 20, 2001, And In Berlin, House Of World Cultures, October 9-30, 2001--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References. Recently democracy has been the watchword for a range of disparate, yet apparently convergent contestations and negotiations within the global order. Democracy Unrealized , detailing the results of Platform1, the first of four conferences held in conjunction with Documenta 11, presents a context within which the interpretive and conceptual regimes surrounding democracy can be reargued against the claims of a neoliberal ideology. From this globalist viewpoint, democracy described as an unfinished project requires no structural changes, for it is complete in all its foundational features, requiring only small technical adjustments and minor tinkering. This is how the main Western democracies have seen themselves--at best as "incomplete implementations" of equality and justice, rather than as limited, flawed, dead-ended, and problematic. In response to this presumption, this book proceeds from the idea that realizing democracy is partly a matter of bringing to light what liberal democracy has promised but failed to deliver. The emphasis here is on the potential for revision, a reevaluation of values, and the extension and creative transformation necessary to keep in step with 21st-century globalizing processes. This is democracy as an ever open, essentially unfinishable project that in principle has fallen short of its ideals.