scholarly journals Everyday aesthetics and Jacques Rancière: reconfiguring the common field of aesthetics and politics

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1506209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margus Vihalem
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Field

A Breathing Space for Aesthetics and Politics: An Introduction to Jacques Rancière

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Papastergiadis
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The Political ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Creative Transformation ◽  
Breathing Space ◽  
Jacques Rancière

Jacques Rancière is one of the central figures in the contemporary debates on aesthetics and politics. This introduction maps the shift of focus in Rancière’s writing from political theory to contemporary art practice and also traces the enduring interest in ideas on equality and creativity. It situates Rancière’s rich body of writing in relation to key theorists such as the philosopher Alain Badiou, art historian Terry Smith and anthropologist George E. Marcus. I argue that Rancière offers a distinctive approach in this broad field by clarifying the specificity of the artist’s task in the production of critical and creative transformation, or what he calls the ‘distribution of the sensible’. In conclusion, I complement Rancière’s invocation to break out of the oppositional paradigm in which the political and aesthetic are usually confined by outlining some further methodological techniques for addressing contemporary art.

scholarly journals Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Drew S. Burk
Keyword(s):  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Common World ◽  
The Way

I would like to recall several ideas that have supported the entirety of my work for the past 40 years: forms of worker emancipation and the regimes of the identification of art; the transformations of literary fiction and the principles of democracy; the presuppositions of historical science and the forms of consensus by today’s dominant apparatuses. What unites all these areas of research is the attention to the way in which these practices and forms of knowledge imply a certain cartography of the common world. I have chosen to name this system of relations between ways of being, doing, seeing, and thinking that determine at once the common world and the ways in which everyone takes part within it the “distribution of the sensible.” But it must also be said that temporal categories play an important role in this as well. By defining a now, a before and an after, and in connecting them together within the narrative, they predetermine the way in which the common world is given to us in order to perceive it and to think it as well as the place given to everyone who occupies it and the capacity by which each of us then has to perceive truth. The narrative of time at once states what the flow of time makes possible as well as the way in which the inhabitants of time can grasp (or not grasp) these “possibles.” This articulation is a fiction. In this sense, politics and forms of knowledge are established by way of fictions including as well works that are deemed to be of the imagination. And the narrative of time is at the heart of these fictions that structure the intelligibility of these situations, which is to say as well, their acceptability. The narrative of time is always at the same time a fiction of the justice of time. Author(s): Jacques Rancière Title (English): Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics Translated by (French to English): Drew S. Burk Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje  Page Range: 7-18 Page Count: 11 Citation (English): Jacques Rancière, “Skopje: Time, Narrative, and Politics,” translated from the French by Drew S. Burk, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015): 7-18.

scholarly journals O lugar próprio no espaço impróprio: o negro, o judeu e o comum

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (70) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique Fernandes Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Common ◽  
Edmond Jabes

O lugar próprio no espaço impróprio: o negro, o judeu e o comum Resumo: No pós-guerra, uma série de intelectuais que residiam na França, alguns deles, como exilados ou expatriados, travaram um intenso debate a respeito das condições do negro e do judeu. Jean-Paul Sartre formulou uma das questões centrais desse debate: haveria uma essência da negritude ou do judaísmo? Para Frantz Fanon, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida e Edmond Jabès, a negritude e o judaísmo podem ser compreendidos a partir das experiências do exílio e da expatriação. Esse artigo pretende reconstruir esse debate e analisar a importância do não-pertencimento para as concepções de comunidade e comum desenvolvidas por Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Rancière. Palavras-chave: Negro. Judeu. Expatriação. Não-pertencimento. Comum. El lugar propio en el espacio impropio: el negro, el judío y el común Resumen: En la pos-guerra, una serie de intelectuales que vivían en Francia, algunos de ellos, como exilados o expatriados, trabaran un intenso debate a respecto de las condiciones del negro y del judío. Jean-Paul Sartre formuló una de las preguntas centrales de ese debate: ¿habría una esencia da negritud o de judaísmo? Para Frantz Fanon, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida y Edmond Jabès, la negritud y el judaísmo pueden ser comprendidos a partir de las experiencias de exilio y de la expatriación. Ese artículo pretende reconstruir ese debate y analizar la importancia del no-pertenencia a las conceptos de comunidad y común desarrolladas por Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben y Jacques Rancière. Palabras-clave: Negro. Judío. Expatriación. No-pertenencia. Común. The proper place in the improper space: the black, the jewish and the common Abstract: In the postwar period, a number of intellectuals residing in France, some of them as exiles or expats, the intellectuals engaged in an intense debate about the conditions of the black and the jewish. Jean-Paul Sartre formulated one of the key questions of this debate: Is there an essence of blackness or judaism? For Frantz Fanon, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Edmond Jabès, blackness and judaism can be understood from the experiences of exile and expatriation. This article aims to reconstruct this debate and analyze the importance of non-belonging to the conceptions of community and common developed by Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Rancière. Keywords: Black. Jewish. Expatriation. Non-belonging. Common. Data de registro: 11/12/2019 Data de aceite: 26/08/2020

scholarly journals Distancias. Hacia un régimen estético-político de la imagen-movimiento = Distances. Towards an Aesthetic and Political Image-Movement Regime

2020 ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Eduardo Galak
Keyword(s):  
Political Regime ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Fritz Lang ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Dziga Vertov ◽  
Politics Of Aesthetics ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Image Movement

Se interpelan las tensiones en las distancias entre sentidos estéticos y discursos políticos a partir de analizar las revoluciones técnicas y estéticas que se produjeron en la cinematografía de la década de 1920. Para ello se analizan tres largometrajes: Metrópolis, de Fritz Lang (1927), Berlín. Sinfonía de una ciudad, de Walter Ruttmann (1927) y El hombre de la cámara, de Dziga Vértov (1929). En ellos la ciudad se presenta como escenario donde los cuerpos se mueven, narrado por un conjunto de imágenes cuyo montaje se proyecta como el compás armónico de un régimen estético-político de la imagen-movimiento. En el hiato entre educar con la mirada y educar la mirada se trasluce la distancia entre lo que Jacques Rancière denomina como la «estética de la política» y la «política de la estética». Lo cual, confrontándolo con Walter Benjamin, posibilita observar las distancias entre imágenes, entre técnicas, entre originalidades y reproducciones, entre la estética y la política.AbstractThe aim is to analyze the distances between aesthetic senses and political speeches by technical and aesthetical cinematography revolutions happened in the 1920s. This is observed at three feature films: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), Berlin. Symphony of a Metropolis (Walter Ruttmann, 1927) and The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vértov, 1929). At those films the city is exhibited as a scenario where bodies are moving, narrated by a set of images whose assembly is projected as the harmonic compass of an aesthetic-political regime of the image-movement. In the hiatus between educating with the gaze and educating the gaze itself, the distance between what Jacques Rancière called as the «aesthetics of politics» and the «politics of aesthetics» is studied. Confronting this with Walter Benjamin’s theory, it is possible to observe the distances between images, between techniques, between originality and reproduction and between aesthetics and politics.

Aesthetics and Politics Revisited: An Interview with Jacques Rancière

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Arnall ◽  
Laura Gandolfi ◽  
Enea Zaramella
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière

scholarly journals Sørejser og historiografisk politik - Britisk historiefortælling om havet og dets folk

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Johan Heinesen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Science ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

The article traces ways in which the historiography of British voyaging and exploration has configured the relationship between shipboard communities and words. This is argued to be a ‘political’ issue in the sense bestowed upon the word by Jacques Rancière. He sees the kernel of politics to be the struggle about speech and the ability of speaking beings to designate what is ‘common’ to community. Taking its clues from Rancière’s poetics of knowledge the article explores how historiography has dealt with the ship’s community of speaking beings. It identifies a strategy through which the narration of the ship distinguishes between good speech and bad speech and lets the former be the foundation of a proper community, while the later becomes a transgression of the boundaries of community. Historical science later supplemented this displacement of speech by tying the truth of community to hidden structures, thereby disabling the actor’s ability to narrate the common.

scholarly journals Fiction, truth, politics : the aesthetical dimension of actuality, from arendt to rancière.

Soft Power ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Massimo Villani
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Common ◽  
Political Praxis

Actuality works in a medial dimension, in which the real only expresses itself, without referencing anything else. That of medium is a spurious space, loaded with cognitive and libidinal stains that the subjects leave behind in their relationships. Politics, in the neoliberal period, wears itself out in this context that has no links with stable facts, that is not shielded from human affairs. Starting from some of Hannah Arendt’s considerations about the relational character of truth, it is possible to think of political praxis in this rigorously post-foundational context. With Jacques Rancière, we will then observe how the real, in order to be thought, needs to be turned into fiction: politics is a dispute about fiction of the common space, about how its material and symbolic configuration is imagined. But faking equality of anyone with everyone means in fact practicing it.

Playing to Dissent: The Aesthetics and Politics of Playful Office Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 297-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Alexandersson ◽  
Viktorija Kalonaityte
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Office Design ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Relationship

In this article we develop the analysis and the conceptualization of the relationship between play and work within the increasingly aestheticized working life, drawing on the scholarship of Jacques Rancière and using images of playful office interiors as our empirical case. In doing so, we are able to add to the theorization of the uneasy relationship between the subordination of employee imagination and self to the agendas of the employer, typical of wage labor, and the strive for heteronomy and refiguring of the social order, characteristic of play.

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