This issue of World Records investigates how documentary film and video, performance art, curatorial frameworks, digital social media platforms, and photojournalism provide grounds for collective action. Suddenly, they may realize their own capacity to make it anew. “The reality of the public realm relies on the simultaneous presence of innumerable perspectives and aspects,” Arendt writes in The Human Condition, “in which the common world presents itself and for which no common measurement or denominator can ever be devised.” When such a world appears, humans are no longer forced to accept the givenness of reality. In Arendt’s estimation, to recognize one another, and to do so on equal terms, was an essential human practice. Arendt returned again and again to her core philosophical concern: a common world experienced in the presence of others. So argued Hannah Arendt, the political philosopher whose brilliant and sometimes troubling ideas frame the many contributions gathered in this issue of World Records. Reality is what we make of it-at least in principle.
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