translate English to German: It is about avoiding precisely the occupation of the empty space of power, the permanent creation of closed space. From the standpoint of democracy theory, the public sphere is at once a product and condition of possibility of democracy as it is the public sphere that stands for the constitutive division of society and creates this division qua conflictual, antagonistic debate again and again.
Leforts Öffentlichkeit ist deshalb auch kein Metaraum, wie jene von Habermas, weil Zeit keinen Raum bilden kann (Zeit kann, wie Laclau sagt, nichts hegemonisieren).