The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced...
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Jan 15, 2011
Jeremy Allan
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An English edition of Rancière's Le Partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique, this volume includes an interview with the translator, Gabriel Rockhill, and an afterword, "The Lesson of Rancière," by Zizek. The main text is discursive, with Rancière responding at length to questions posed by "two young philosophers, Muriel Combes and Bernard Aspe, for their journal, Alice..." These sections relate his conception of a "distribution of the sensible," and this woul
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Sep 17, 2010
John
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A collection of two interviews in which Ranciere speaks about what he sees as the inherent connection between art, aesthetics, and the political. The main idea seemed to be that, especially since the early 19th-century, the aesthetic has helped to break up the "distribution of the sensible," which Ranciere defines as that which subjects can see and hear. Like any good French theorist, hard to read.
Feb 13, 2010
julia
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This book is super dense, short but takes a long time to dicipher but the content is interesting, to sum it up, political art should not hit you over the head with a 'save the world message' nor be too uncanny...
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Dec 13, 2008
Brad
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After all the hoopla, I found this disappointing. Rancière releases aesthetics from a narrow cage only to put it on a short leash. Some of his observations could be related to the debate about the nature of publics such as that art can be seen as "forms that inscribe a sense of community."
Jan 17, 2012
Hunter
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not sure i got all of what he was saying, but it doesn't seem to live up to the hype. . .
Mar 05, 2008
Penny
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"The arts only ever lend to projects of domination and emancipation what they are able to lend to them, that is to say, quite simply, what they have in common with them: bodily positions and movements, functions of speech, the parceling out of the visible and invisible. Furthermore, the autonomy they can enjoy or the subversion they can claim credit for rest on the same foundation."
Jul 02, 2008
José Felipe
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the interview format of this book straight up sucks. and the questions the interviewer asks are straight up stupid. but if you don't read french, and haven't encountered ranciere, it's a good place to settle in. don't settle long though.
Jul 21, 2008
Ronny
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rada setengah mampus bacanya tapi worth it! one of the best from Ranciere, meski gw masih lebih suka The Philosopher and His Poor
Nov 17, 2007
Al
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This is in my bibliography, but it counts as avoidance.
Ranciere is something of a torrent nowadays, in English.
Ranciere is something of a torrent nowadays, in English.
Nov 22, 2007
Roy
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he invents new meanings for words. there's a glossary in the back. it doesn't help.
May 13, 2008
Iben
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My brain is too tired to give this one a review, but it's worth reading.
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