Publics and the space of discourse
 

Warner 90: "A public is the social space created by the reflexive circulation of discourse"
 
"No single text can create a discourse [...] a public is understood to be an ongoing space of encounter for discourse. [No] texts themselves create publics, but the concatenation of texts through time."
 
91: "Anything that addresses a public is meant to undergo circulation [...] Circulation also accounts for the way a public seems both internal and external to discourse"
 
97: "A text, to have a public, must continue to circulate through time, and because this can only be confirmed through an intertextual environment of citation and implication, all publics are intertextual, even intergeneric"

> from Michael Warner's Publics and Counterpublics (2005)

> tagged with #intertextuality, #conversation, #public_and_private

> created August 17, 2024 at 4:26:06 PM


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