Communication and political action in the mediatic continuum. Luhmann versus Haber, and we versus everyone else

Abstract

Communication and political action in the mediatic continuum. Luhmann versus Haber, and we versus everyone else — Politics for Jürgen Habermas is set up starting from the formation of consciousness, from the investment in the language, in daily conversation, in inter-subjective relationship. For Niklas Luhmann on the other side it sets up by itself, public opinion has nothing to do with personal opinion. It has no sense to invest in language, for it is pre-social, it is placed beyond the subjects, no democratization comes from it. But no one of both thinkers with their answers is sufficient for the present time of high technological communications. No one of the two models gives an animating answer to the question of the net, no one sees an own media space that could do a mediation between systems, no one gives the conditions to the construction of a technological advanced communication theory.