AbstractFoundational theories of the public sphere prioritize civic speech while distrusting forms of visuality. As a corrective to this model of the public sphere, rhetorical theorists have recently emphasized visuality as a constitutive mode of contemporary public culture, but they nevertheless tend to prioritize the civic actor over the civic spectator. A productive alternative would begin to distinguish an emerging shift from “deliberative publicity” to “photographic publicity.” The bourgeois public sphere innovated verbal communicative practices that produced a specifically deliberative publicity, enabling one resolution to the core political problems of an earlier (feudal) era. Likewise, contemporary publics utilize emerging digital technologies to produce a specifically photographic publicity, allowing them to address fundamental limitations of the bourgeois public sphere. Photographic publicity helps us rethink the problem of the public sphere in terms of theatricality and civic spectatorship.

Book Review| March 01 2012 Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates. Robert Asen. Melanie Loehwing Melanie Loehwing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (1): 176–179. https://doi.org/10.2307/41955612 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Melanie Loehwing; Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2012; 15 (1): 176–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41955612 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2012 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2012 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2009 Publics, Counterpublics, and the Promise of Democracy Melanie Loehwing; Melanie Loehwing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeff Motter Jeff Motter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philosophy & Rhetoric (2009) 42 (3): 220–241. https://doi.org/10.2307/25655356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Melanie Loehwing, Jeff Motter; Publics, Counterpublics, and the Promise of Democracy. Philosophy & Rhetoric 1 January 2009; 42 (3): 220–241. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25655356 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressPhilosophy & Rhetoric Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2009 The Pennsylvania State University2009The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.