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Democracy Unrealized, even in the so-called liberal states, was the diagnosis made by the organizers of the 2002 art show Documenta 11. The question is now: Is democracy realizable at all? At least for us, naive monsters, referring to Prometheus, the answer is quite simple: yes, by a further increment in the liberating dimension of technology, not ideology; or, in other words, by conceiving architecture as a quantum object, in which real and virtual space are coherently superposed, the impact of materiality could exponentially be reduced and investment of capital minimized.

In so doing, numerous - "good no-places" (utopias) ­ could be created, providing people of all ages with the capabilities and skills necessary for competing ways of life in the Age of Global Net ­ an age of difference, ambivalence and extreme openness.

Thanks to that, the liberating process of decoding and deterritorializing based on the old democratic principles of liberty and equality for all, which capitalism unleashed with its disruptive energy of ceaseless innovation and change, could be accelerated. So what we obviously need to achieve Democracy Realized is simply
a) more capitalism -­ capitalism against capitalism, and
b) less architecture -­ architecture against architecture.

Jean-Pierre Cagnat

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