Welcome to Making Things Public You are invited here to experience in a new way the presence of political matters. We ask you to be open-minded about the object of politics. As you will discover throughout this show, politics might not be so much about opinion as about things —things made public.

In this groundbreaking editorial and curatorial project, more than 100 writers, artists, and philosophers rethink what politics is about. In a time of political turmoil and anticlimax, this book redefines politics as operating in the realm of things. Politics is not just an arena, a profession, or a system, but a concern for things brought to the attention of the fluid and expansive constituency of the public.