Student protest restores a democratic public sphere whose mechanisms have failed

Evidence

The student protests, I contend, have a compensatory function, since the control mechanisms that are built into democracy are either not working at all here, or not working properly.’ … I well remember the fact that it was the campaign by students, in this case those in Berlin, against false definitions of a war that is a struggle for social liberation, that first made a breach in the official world-picture of our nation and let information from the other side gradually trickle in.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 652

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Hall’s account of consent-based regulation shifting to coercion and to the Frankfurt School’s hegemony-crisis apparatus. — connects to: Student protest compensated for failing democratic control mechanisms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2614; The protest movement’s core aim was repoliticizing the public sphere against technocratic depoliticization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Habermas linked student protest to recovering science’s emancipatory potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2613 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘The compensatory function of protest’ — movements as repair mechanisms for broken institutional feedback loops.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Student protest compensated for failing democratic control mechanisms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2614; The protest movement’s core aim was repoliticizing the public sphere against technocratic depoliticization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Habermas linked student protest to recovering science’s emancipatory potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2613 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Student protest compensated for failing democratic control mechanisms. #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2614
• Large protest events repeatedly fail to produce lasting political change #complicates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1952