The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière

Symposium ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Tanke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière

The Question of the Political: Back to Where You Once Belonged?

Other Others ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Sergey Dolgopolski
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Jacques Rancière

The chapter analyses how the question of the political in two currently predominant and competing schools of political thought, political theology, exemplified by Carl Schmitt, and political ontology, exemplified by Jacques Rancière. The notion of the other others comes front and centre in this analysis. In political ontology, the concept of the political is predicated on an ability of a politician, a lawyer, or an artist to employ the philosophical, and in modern terms, “ontological” distinction between what is the case in each case and what seems to be the case in each case. In political theology, it is no longer “being” as opposed to “seeming”, but rather an ability to represent as radically distinct from any particular content conveyed. The chapter further traces foundations of both political theology and political ontology in Kant’s transcendentalism -- in particular in the necessity by which transcendentalism denies “positive law,” which Christianity traditionally ascribed to the Jews. The balance of the chapter shows how, however mutually exclusive, both political theology and political ontology remain intersubjective in their scope and thereby both efface and help notice what, in the following chapters will emerge on the pages of the Talmud as interpersonal rather than intersubjective dimension of the political.

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.

Politische Prekarität

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Hollendung
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Political ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
May Day

To what extent can political theories adequately address the dangers that may accompany the political? This monograph is less concerned with the emancipative potential of the political, but rather with its downsides. Drawing on the concept of precarity, as defined in sociology and the May Day movement, it calls into question the ideas of sovereignty and autonomy using the theories of Judith Butler. The book systematises the controversy on what ‘the political’ is. Subsequently, it defines ‘political precarity’ in accordance with the ideas of Hannah Arendt, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. These theories are complementary and conflicting in several respects and they mutually point out each other’s weaknesses. However, Hollendung identifies an innovative understanding of the precarious by intertwining these ideas.

scholarly journals Dans un ordre, je balance un « u » pour ordure : le déchet comme « sans-part » dans une pratique artistique technologique

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisele Trudel
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière

ABSTRACT The political philosophy of Jacques Rancière, with its concepts of aesthetics, dissensus and subjectivation, enables the analysis of the relation to matter perceived as waste. Is it possible to transform the latter by means of a technological art practice?RÉSUMÉ La philosophie politique de Jacques Rancière, avec ses concepts d’esthétique, de dissensus et de subjectivation, permet d’analyser la relation à la matière considérée comme déchet. Ce dernier peut-il être transformé avec une pratique artistique technologique?

Distant Immediacy: Badiou and Rancière on May ’68 and its Consequences

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Rok Benčin
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
May 68 ◽  
Political Spectrum

This article on the French May ’68 addresses the gap between the immediacy of the event and the series of consequences that are supposed to have followed from it. In the eyes of the critics of May ’68 from all sides of the political spectrum, the events in France have been considered as having no consequence at all, as having no political but merely cultural consequences, or as producing political consequences that were opposite to the intentions of their actors. To these interpretations, which all account for the distance between the event and its consequences by means of completely disjointing the latter from the former, the article opposes two reflections on May ’68 – those by Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – that attempt to examine the consequences of the very immediacy of the politics practised by the actors of the events, a politics that operates at a distance from mediation, representation and postponement. Badiou and Rancière propose some similar conclusions, but also two very different ways of reading the immediacy of the event.

Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
The World ◽  
Jacques Rancière

In Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancière’s writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very same terms: each involves the visible and the invisible, the heard and unheard, and the distribution of bodies in a perceivable social order. Between making, performing, viewing and sharing films, a space is constructed for tracing and realigning the margins of society, allowing us to consider the potential of cinema to create new political subjects. Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Climates and John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema possibly affect the political structure of the world as we know it?

The 2011 Occupy Movements: Rancière and the Crisis of Democracy

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabell Lorey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Occupy Movements

The Occupy movements in 2011 – this essay focuses mainly on Spain and the United States – have been more than moments of grassroots or direct democracy: they have been collective political practices testing forms of non-representationist democracy in the Europe of representative democracy to an unusually great extent. The precarious subjects of post-Fordism rejected political representation, and at the same time they struggled for a ‘real’ democracy. This oxymoron between representation and democracy structures the political philosophy of Jacques Rancière and corresponds with his well-known distinction between police and politics. This is one of the reasons why his thinking is helpful to understand them as decidedly political ones. However, the assembly as one of the central topoi of theories of democracy plays no prominent role in Rancière’s political philosophy. In contrast to this, I focus on the central practice of the assemblies in the Occupy movements and develop a concept of presentist democracy.

scholarly journals Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: Notes on the political from Rome and Dublin

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesare Di Feliciantonio ◽  
Cian O’Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
A Chain

Geographical analyses on protests against austerity politics using the framework of post-politics have proliferated in recent years, mostly building on the work of Jacques Rancière and his conceptualisation of the political and the police order. The paper continues this tradition but seeks to move beyond those analyses reducing the political gesture to a ‘rare’ and ‘heroic’ act. It does so by bridging the work of Rancière with the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, developing two main arguments. The first one concerns the local and situated dimension of the political moment; the second concerns the dialectical relation between the police order and its disruption, while at the same time viewing insurgent acts as part of a chain of perpetual acts that destabilise the police order, which moreover are the inevitable outcome of its excess. These theoretical arguments are developed in relation to the analysis of the trajectory of disruptive politics around vacant property in Dublin and Rome. In both cities, several contentious political initiatives around property emerged as a response to the crisis and austerity politics, but they were unable to translate into bigger movements. To account for this, the paper identifies two main factors: the limited violence of the crisis in terms of evictions and foreclosures, and the instrumental use of ‘legality’ and ‘rules’ by the police order. Nevertheless, we argue, activist engagements with vacant property can be considered as examples of ‘world forming’ that create the possibilities for further disruptive politics.

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