Democracy unrealized: Documenta 11, Platform 1

Documenta11 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.

"This volume contains all contributions to Documenta 11P̲latform 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"--Title page verso.

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…