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Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This is a brand new collection of Jacques Ranciere's writings on art and politics. "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 ...Show more
Hatred of Democracy by Jacques Ranciere
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This title offers a vehement defense of the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. Jacques Ranciere argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism. As certain governments are exporting democracy by brute ...Show more
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics by Jacques Ranciere
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this book Jacques Ranci re radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions, showing how this plurality itself refers to the do ...Show more
On the Shores of Politics by Jacques Ranciere
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end ...Show more
The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 ...Show more
The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere
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Category: Art and Design
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience 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 communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of t ...Show more
The Future of the Image by Jacques Ranciere
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Category: Art and Design
Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Ranciere's work returns politics to its central place in understanding art. In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intri ...Show more
The Future of the Image by Jacques Ranciere
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, ...Show more
The Intellectual and His People - Staging the People Volume 2 by Jacques Ranciere
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Ranci re from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive ...Show more
The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction by Jacques Ranciere
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In The Lost Thread, Ranciere debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between mo ...Show more
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