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
- 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
