This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Svetlana Borodina can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/technologies-of-equal-participation-formats-designs-practices-introduction/. About the post: If Kelty looks back in time and offers a historical ethnography of participation in the Western world, the posts of this series look synchronically and laterally. From the broad range of calls for participation, a specific kind interests the authors whose work is featured in this series: those contexts where “equal participation” has been intentionally attempted or at least aspired for. The authors provide ethnographic insights from across the globe into how various practico-material assemblages become labeled as signs of or conduits to equal participation (hence, the discussion of political forms of subjectivity) and what kind of presence and actions they activate and conceal.

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