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counterpublic

adj
/ˌkaʊntəˈpʌblɪk/US/ˌkaʊntəˈpʊblɪk//ˈkaʊntəˌpʌblɪk/US/ˈkaʊntəˌpʊblɪk/

Etymology

From counter- + public.

  1. derived from *pleh₁-✻ — “to fill”
  2. derived from *poplos✻ — “army”
  3. derived from pūblicus — “of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public”
  4. derived from public — “(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively”
  5. derived from public
  6. derived from public
  7. inherited from publik
  8. prefixed as counterpublic — “counter + public”

Definitions

  1. Opposing or serving as a counterbalance to the dominant public.

    • An account of this sort provides a historicized moral foundation for a conception of counterpublic spheres more capable of undertaking a (decentered and multifaceted) critique of systematically distorted communication.

  2. A group that stands in opposion to the dominant public.

    • In other words, with this book they form a “counterpublic” to what they saw as a dominant, adult-controlled public sphere.
    • It is incorrect to conceive of the black counterpublic as historically static or as ideologically cohesive at any given historical moment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterpublic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA