Scripted Culture

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges: the cultural public sphere is simultaneously exploding and imploding; the most essential objectives of the Enlightenment have been attained and yet are in danger. Platforms and algorithms are vehicles both for self-determination and for heteronomy. Long-standing values from the Enlightenment and new realities, the citizen and the consumer, rational systems of humans and machines alike are separate and yet at the same time inextricable from each other in this picture. With contributions by Remo Bitzi, Corinne Gisel, Simon Grand, Ines Kleesattel, Donat Kaufmann, Eva Mackensen, Frédéric Martel, Dieter Mersch, Kathrin Passig, Mathis Neuhaus, Lora Sommer, David Simon, Felix Stalder, Wolfgang Ullrich, Hansi Voigt, Christoph Weckerle, Daniela Weinmann, Ruedi Widmer, and many others.