Thinking Democracy in a Digital Age

Thinking democracy in a digital age

Democracy in an age of emergencies • Stephen Mills

Right now, according to British political theorist Jonathan White, the future seems very close. Our time horizon is closing in. Crises press in on us, shadowing contemporary politics with an “air of finality,” of “temporal claustrophobia.” Climate change, geopolitical instability, social inequality, out-of-control technology — together they invoke a sense that “time is running out,” forcing irrevocable decisions to be made in conditions of “time…