Public Sphere and Experience keyword sheehan she grapples with questions of she grapples with questions of global voices and local critiques But in both eras the tinder was prepared by decades of social neglect and political disenfranchisement that have left the predominantly non white urban poor trapped and virtually without hope But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition In Kluge and Negt’s groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture