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""The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes have been destroyed, and the era touted as new and exceptional has turned out to be remarkably similar to the old order - but not simply due to the aggression of external forces. Instead, we must look to the nature of consensus itself, which, in the view of leading radical philosopher Jacques Rancière, is revealed as a violent, absolutized capitalist machine whose output is ever more inequality, exclusion and hate. This book delivers a frank and piercing assessment of the globalised capitalist consensus. The invasion of Iraq, the riots on Capitol Hill and the rise of the European far right all provide evidence of the consummation of consensual realism, as does the current state-sanctioned racism which exploits the disenchanted progressive tradition and is led by an intelligentsia that claims to be left-wing. At the same time, Rancière also praises the dynamism of social movements which affirm the power of the assembly of equals and its capacity for worldmaking: autonomous protest collectives have proven themselves capable of opening breaches in the consensual order and challenging the post-1989 system of domination.""--

"En dialoguant avec le jeune philosophe espagnol Javier Bassas, Jacques Rancière explicite deux idées qui sont au cœur de son travail. Les mots ne sont pas des ombres auxquelles s'oppose la réalité solide des choses. Ils sont eux-mêmes des réalités dont l'action construit ou subvertit un ordre du monde. Et l'écriture n'est pas l'illustration de la pensée. Elle est un travail de la pensée qui défait le tissu consensuel des rapports entre le perceptible et le pensable et ébranle les hiérarchies entre les modes de discours. Dans l'écriture philosophique comme dans les processus d'émancipation politique, il s'agit de construire des plans d'égalité en détruisant les barrières qui enferment les humains, leur expérience et leur pensée dans des mondes séparés. C'est ainsi tout un discours de la méthode égalitaire que Jacques Rancière développe ici et que Javier Bassas l'amène à préciser en confrontant ses analyses à d'autres entreprises théoriques : marxisme althussérien, phénoménologie ou déconstruction derridienne."-- Résumé de l'éditeur

12 The Actuality of The Ignorant Schoolmaster -- With Andrea Benvenuto, Laurence Cornu and Patrice Vermeren Le Télémaque, 2005 -- 13 Losing Too Is Still Ours: An Interview about the Thwarted Politics of Literature -- With Martin Jalbert Cahiers littéraires Contre-jour, 2005 -- 14 The Indecisive Affect -- With Patrice Blouin, Élie During and Dork Zabunyan Critique, 2005 -- 15 The New Anti-Democratic Discourse -- With Amador Fernández-Savater Archipélago, 2006 -- 16 Art of the Possible -- With Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey Artforum, 2007 -- 17 Another Type of Universality

In this title, the foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of seeing. The role of the viewer in art and film theory revolves around a theatrical concept of the spectacle. The masses subjected to the society of spectacle have traditionally been seen as aesthetically and politically passive - in response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed "The Future of the Image", Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. Beginning by asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, instead, a melancholic affirmation of their omnipotence?