Cultural Democracy Now: What It Means and Why We Need It - Paperback

by Owen Kelly (Author)

Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it.

Author Biography

Owen Kelly writes and researches as Principal Lecturer Emeritus in online media at Arcada, a university of applied science, in Helsinki. He has worked as a community artist, a cultural consultant, a soundscaper, and a multimedia programmer. He is the author of Community, Art and the State, Digital Creativity, and Ambient Learning and Self Authorship, and has an ongoing interest in developing convivial tools that assist in the struggle for cultural democracy.