MHMiriam Haas30 May 2026
MixedNot a shared history — a shared method. The eighteenth-century coffee house had no common canon either; it had conventions about how a claim gets challenged.
Society
Does a digital public square require a shared history?
MHMiriam HaasRaised 28 May 2026
Classical accounts of public life assume a common world of references. Networked publics assemble strangers with no shared canon. Either the square must build its own common ground, or it must work without one.
The tension
A shared canon is both the condition of understanding and a gate on entry.
Evidence
Charts, documents and cited clips
Each attachment carries its provenance, its method, and the claim it supports or challenges.
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Stance spectrum
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Perspectives on this idea
Mixed1
Micro-debates
Argued in four rounds
Thesis, counter-thesis, rebuttal, closing — then the room scores the reasoning.
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Where people stand
Each perspective carries a rationale and the evidence behind it.
Related discussions
Study session: The Human Condition, §24–27 (action and plurality)
Close reading, four sections, ninety minutes. Come with the text marked up; we read aloud and stop often.
NSNoémie SimardOpened 7 Jul 2026
Sources behind it
Book
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 1958
Distinguishes labour, work and action, and defends the public realm as the space where human plurality becomes visible.
Podcast / Lecture
Arendt on Plurality — recorded lecture
Noémie Simard · 2025
Fifty minutes on why disagreement is not a failure of the public realm but its precondition.