"Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics" brings together some of
Jacques Ranciere's most recent writings on art and politics to show
the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the
aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics.
In this fascinating collection, Ranciere engages in a radical
critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art
and politics: Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Alain
Badiou and Jacques Derrida. The essays show how Ranciere's ideas
can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and
politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the
contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and
politics. Ranciere elaborates new directions for the concepts of
politics and communism, as well as the notion of what a 'politics
of art' might be.
This important collection includes several essays that have
never previously been published in English, as well as a brand new
afterword. Together these essays serve as a superb introduction to
the work of one of the world's most influential contemporary
thinkers.
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