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Democracy From the Bedroom

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How the internet politicized our most intimate spaces.

Democracy From the Bedroom Paolo Gerbaudo, Rahel Süß Out of the streets and into your homes. At first glance, the bedroom may look like the exact opposite of a political space. If we follow Hannah Arendt’s definition of politics, informed by Aristotle, as comprising any action that is performed in public, bedrooms are quintessentially apolitical. They are where we sleep, make love, tend to the needs of our children, recover when sick, and seek refuge from the outside world. Yet in our era, this most private of places has been absorbed into the political realm: as a site of our online interacti

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