Creating publics

Key points from Michael Warner's Publics and Counterpublics:

1. A public is self-organized; publics do not exist apart from the discourse that addresses them
2. A public is a relation among strangers
3. The address of public speech is both personal and impersonal
4. A public is constituted through mere attention
5. A public is the social space created by the reflective circulation of discourse
6. Publics act historically according to the temporality of their circulation
7. A public is poetic world making

Source: Publics and Counterpublics, Chapter 2, Michael Warner (2005) publisher page