Missing Masses

The growth in inequalities a local and global scale, combined with the crisis in modern forms of political representation, are de- manding new answers to skills and institutional practices. The traditional modern separations between culture, art, politics, economics and science no longer seem to support a comparison with the challenges of the present. Facing ecological disaster, human society is dangerously exposed as never before to non-humans. Modern politics do not seem to have the tools to respond effectively. Contemporary information and communication technologies have removed meaning and legitimacy from traditional forms of political representation. The possibility of real-time, socially connected updates recall non-representative forms of participation in the polis.