by Jai Sen, 22.4.2013: aftar a summary of social movts of the 1990s and 200s, he notes: "Keeping all this in mind – and even this is only a part of all that was going on during that period -, we need to consider the possibility that the particular organisational form and culture for which the WSF is today so widely celebrated, of being an ‘open space’ for exchange and deliberation, was perhaps conceptualised quite specifically as a means towards some very particular political ends the organisers had in mind with respect to this wider universe of increasingly turbulent movement. Tentatively, I suggest that this can be summarised as placing emphasis on deliberation rather than on action or, for instance, on what is referred to as ‘prefigurative politics’ – living out the change and social relations that you want to see taking shape in society. "