And if I were entirely convinced, I might still be able to reasonably support certain kinds of unions (the participatory German and Japanese kind, not so much the traditionally confrontational American kind) because they increase workers' voice and participation.
There's that kind of participatory nature to more and more of the events.
More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships.
The joke, it was clear, was on the holdouts, those of us hoping for a kind of participatory magic that was not to be.
Books are good at delivering essentially linear stories, she insists, while computers are good at telling stories of a different kind: procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial.
And video clips on YouTube and on designers' Web sites promise to turn the straightforward act of getting dressed into a kind of participatory sport.
Participatory sports of every kind are as much a part of the culture here as artisanal foods or the latest gadgets.
"I like this kind of participatory art," said Mr. Gindi, a veteran of several Spencer Tunick nude photos and, in his clothed hours, a Broadway producer.
To the radical Students for a Democratic Society, in the 1960's, devolution was a new kind of participatory democracy through which "our monster cities... might now be humanized, broken into smaller communities... arranged according to community decision".
