On 4/25/07, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
but i think you will agree that the "public" is not a apriori conceptual category. a very specific public is imagined into existence through specific interventions as shared codes of appreciation do not emerge spontaneously.
There was a recent thread here regd. The Washington Post's experiment with Joshua Bell playing at a subway station. It was reported that every child that passed by wanted to stop, only to be pulled along by busy parents on their way to work. Would you say that points to the existence of a "shared code of appreciation" that's 'just there'?
