Author: Jacques Ranciere

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic distributions of the sensible, wh...

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologie...

Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it ...

From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has followed the collapse of the communist promise. T...

A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to spe...

Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word? In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers...

Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it ...

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art...

In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics an...

In this short book, Jacques Rancière takes stock of the state of contemporary politics and examines current developments in the light of his writin...

In this short book, Jacques Rancière takes stock of the state of contemporary politics and examines current developments in the light of his writin...

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 time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art...

The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective...

The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates c...

In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of ...