Bratton, Benjamin H. and Jeremijenko, Natalie. Suspicious images, latent interfaces. Architectural League of New York, 2008..

He suggests that the recognition of the inherently politicized nature of objects and what he calls quasi-objects forces us to rethink historical distinctions between nature and society, and therefore the political institutions that have artificially excluded material and non-human historical actors. If objects come alive with information in new ways , the possibility of their public voice seems not only possible but in some ways inevitable.” (16. on Latour's "parliament of things")

“...concerning participatory democracy, the production of knowledge is the commons we are concerned about: what kind of knowledge gets supported, for whom, by whom? This really is the political question." (18)

 

“...in participatory democracy, that means restructuring participation from the production of scientific or authoritative data and knowledge to this structured participation.” (20)

“The whole Enlightenment concept that knowledge leads to action has failed drastically!”..(28)..”The knowledge society”

 

//Knowledge is power?

“Yes, because they do relocate the authority, and who has the authority to act. It is not just writing to your local representative in the hope that they might do something that improves air quality around the airport, for instance.” …”The act of voting in itself becomes an act of transferring of one’s own sovereignty.” (30)



"The interesting role of the artist in this context, as a kind of politician in the framework of the material public, is one where the artist stands in as the non-expert, the everyman, counter to the institutions of expertise (of the scientist, the engineer, the architect)."

"As the "missing expert", what is the role of the artist for creating politically legitimate forms of knowledge as minor sciences " (35)


(36/37) on agency of the interface vs consumer purchasing power