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Jacques Rancière: Emmanuel Macron’s republican order

While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron’s law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people’s demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression. … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: ‘No institution emancipates people’

From the Verso Books Blog (15/02/2023)… The philosopher Jacques Rancière invites us to fundamentally reconsider our conception of education. Criticising the current ‘teacher-pupil’ configuration, which he believes aggravates inequalities, he proposes a teaching method that is both demanding and intellectually … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: Between anarchy and anarchism

We do not gain from the working operations of history that comprehensive understanding which would reveal the true solution. At best we rectify errors which occur along the way, but the new scheme is not immune to errors which will … Continue reading

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The critique of the school in post-’68 French thought: Interview with Jacques Rancière

There aren’t two sorts of mind. There is inequality in the manifestations of intelligence, according to the greater or lesser energy communicated to the intelligence by the will for discovering and combining new relations; but there is no hierarchy of intellectual capacity. Emancipation is … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: Seven rules to help with the diffusion of racist ideas in france

With french presidential elections upon us (and with other european elections scheduled for this year), we share a short, but timely, piece by Jacques Rancière, on the less than surreptitious ways in which racism is played upon and promoted in … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: “The issue is to manage to maintain dissensus”

Interview with philosopher Jacques Rancière on the Covid-19 crisis, contemporary political upheavals the experience of art and film over the past year, and social media. [From the Verso Books Blog]. We met Jacques Rancière at his home in Paris with some tenacious questions in … Continue reading

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Reading the times with Jacques Rancière: The January 6 assault on the Capitol

From the Verso Books blog (for the English language translation) and originally published on Analyse Opinion Critque. Witnessing the assault on the Capitol, it may seem surprising to see Trump’s supporters relentlessly denying the facts to the point of sinking … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: The singularity of rebellion and autonomy

Démocratie veut dire d’abord cela : un gouvernement anarchique, fondé sur rien d’autre que sur l’absence de tout titre à gouverner. Jacques Rancière, La haine de la démocratie To share, the always timely reflections of Jacques Rancière. A question arises … Continue reading

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The gilets jaunes: Jacques Rancière on the virtues of the inexplicable

Beginnings do not reach their end. they remain halfway. But this also means that they never stop beginning over again, even if this means that the actors change. This is the realism of revolt, an inexplicable realism, one that demands … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: Reflections on equality and emancipation

“Autonomy” has been a key concept in modern emancipatory politics. But it must be understood correctly. It does not mean the autonomous power of a subject as opposed to external forces: it means a form of thinking, practice and organization … Continue reading

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