by Patrizia Nanz Patrizia Nanz is co-founder of the EIPP. She is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bremen. Over the last ten years she has studied the current transformations of democracy. Against the thesis of political disaffection, Patrizia believes that although citizens increasingly have the feeling not to be able to influence politics they are nevertheless interested in politics and engaged. Citizens’ engagement has become issue-specific, more directly

by Jennifer Sertl HOLD ON TO YOUR CORE... There is a deli in my office building that has several Scott Mutter prints. Earlier this summer while I was eating lunch and writing in my journal I had a visceral experience of feeling the water at my feet and the tug of the current. What is so poignant about Mutter’s image is that I believe we are all in an identity crisis: a crisis between nature and technology, a crisis between capitalism and collaboration, a crisis between big da