The radical gap: A preface to Auguste Blanqui, Eternity by the Stars Dossier: Blanqui's Eternal Gap

Dossier: Blanqui's Eternal Gap

Jacques Rancière ~ RP 185 (May/Jun 2014) ~ Article

Dossier BL ANQUI’ S E TERNAL GAP The radical gap A preface to Auguste Blanqui, Eternity by the Stars Jacques rancière I leaf through the programme and learn that the very stars themselves – which, I am irmly convinced, should be but rarely disturbed, and even then only for high reasons of meditative gravity … […]

A precarious dialogue

Dossier: The Greek Symptom: Debt, Crisis and the Crisis of the Left

Maria Kakogianni and Jacques Rancière ~ RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013), pp. 18–25 ~ Interview

Maria Kakogianni It seems to me that we are in an intermediary situation today. The period of the great renunciation of the revolutionary past, and of the ‘end of History’, seems to be giving way to a new sequence of popular struggles (the Arab Spring, Los Indignados, Occupy Wall Street, etc.). But, within this new […]

Notes on the photographic image

Dossier: Undoing the aesthetic image

Jacques Rancière ~ RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009), pp. 8–15 ~ Article

Notes on the photographic image Jacques rancière In the relation between art and image, photography has played a symptomatic and often paradoxical role. Baudelaire made of it the sinister instrument of the triumph of technical reproduction over artistic imagination. And yet we also know of the long struggle of photographers (pictorialistes) to affirm that photography […]