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Tag Archives: Jacques Rancière
Ian Alan Paul: Fascism and the Spectacle of Death
From Ill Will (10/05/2025) Other languages: Türkçe, Français, Español I Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable. Everyone of course is aware that ever more people are immiserated and discarded, that ever … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, Capital, capitalism, Ian Alan Paul, Jacques Rancière, Walter Benjamin
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Jacques Rancière: Reading freedom through Anton Chekhov
Jacques Rancière, in his most recent essay, explores through Anton Chekhov’s fiction the unpredictable yet ever possible and disruptive appearance of freedom in the everyday lives of his characters; in our lives. We share below an excerpt from Rancière’s essay, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, Art and Revolution, Jacques Rancière
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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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Tagged france, Jacques Rancière, State and Capital, State terror
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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
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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Tagged anarchism, democracy, Jacques Rancière, revolution
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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
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
Fascism as the “reconquest”: Éric Zemmour’s political crusade
A breath of African air sweeps them [the Visigoths] from the Peninsula (…) I will be told that, despite this, we knew how to complete our glorious eight centuries of Reconquest. And to this I naively reply that I do … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, france, Jacques Rancière, Ugo Palheta
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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
For Béla Tarr (1955-2026)
“I still consider myself an anarchist. But there’s an old saying, that goes, “If you’re not a communist by 30, you have no heart. But if you’re a communist after 30, you have no brain.” This is quite an old … Continue reading →