Politics

• digital citizenship
  • example: moveon.org
    • Not a virtual public sphere, but a new method of public assembly
• a politician elected to represent vs. as a representative
• authorship and politics

relationship between the text and the subject of the text mediation

• aura

• byzantine icons: venerated both the objects themselves and the process by which they were made
• portraits, photographs
• Walter Benjamin- Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• moon rock, ancient tool
  • sense of 'oomph'; physical contact
• Andy Warhol
• authenticity