Author: Jacques Ranciere
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: images, talking, fables, film
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-05-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 184520168X
ISBN-13: 9781845201685

Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein’s and Murnau’s transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang’s confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann’s Westerns to Ray’s romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini’s neo-realism to Deleuze’s philosophy of the cinema and Marker’s documentaries. Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein’s and Murnau’s transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang’s

Author: Jacques Ranciere
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: aesthetics, politics
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0826489540
ISBN-13: 9780826489548

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming ’aesthetics’ from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of modernity, the role of visual technologies, the relationship between history and fiction, utopias, the avant-garde and the three aesthetic regimes which constitute the ’partitions of the sensible.’ Already translated into five languages, this English edition

Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: image, future
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2009-02-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1844672972
ISBN-13: 9781844672974

A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière 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, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière shows that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can eithe

Author: Jacques Ranciere
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: discontents, aesthetics
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 074564631X
ISBN-13: 9780745646312

Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. Bu

Author: Jacques Ranciere
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: philosophy, politics, disagreement
Published: 1998-06-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0816628459
ISBN-13: 9780816628452

Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, politics, shores
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 2007-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844675777
ISBN-13: 9781844675777

This major French thinker gives politics back its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent. 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 with their dominance is democracy. ’We could’, he suggests, ’merely smile at the duplicity of the conclusion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a

Author: Jacques Ranciere
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: unconscious, aesthetic
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0745646441
ISBN-13: 9780745646442

This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic concepts. In order for Freud to use the Oedipus complex as a means for the interpretation of texts, it was necessary first of all for a particular notion of Oedipus, belonging to the Romantic reinvention of Greek antiquity, to have produced a certain idea of the power of that thought which does not think, and the power of that spee