The Crowd, the Popular Assembly, and the Sublimity of Sovereign Power

Andheehe notes this remarkable transformation that occurs from a riotous crowd seen as simply a source of a violence or need or irrationality. All the sudden transformed and elevated into an instance of the legitimate articulation of the collective will itself. So i don't see this is thetical to the kinds of concerns that that youre kind of lines of inquiry that i hear in your question. But, but i do want to carve out something specific about the aesthetic contour of the experience of mass collectivities in indemocratic contexts.