Dissenting Words

Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière's trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these pages, Rancière discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years, the themes and concerns that have animated his thinking, the positions he has defended and the wide range of objects and discourses that have attracted his attention and through which his thought has unfolded: history, pedagogy, literature, art, cinema. But more than reflecting on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought, Rancière recasts his work in a different discursive register. And the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews - with their asides, displacements and reconstructions - stems from the way Rancière transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts and elucidating his concepts into another, and equally rich, manifestation of his thought.
Core sections of this edition are translated from the french publication Et tant pis pour le gens fatigués, by Jacques Rancière, © Editions Amsterdam 2009, published by arrangement Agence litteraire Pierre Astier & Associés

Jacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.
Emiliano Battista is the translator of Jacques Rancière's Althusser's Lesson (2011) and Film Fables (2006).

Editor's Preface, Emiliano Battista
1. The Fraternal Image
With Serge Daney and Serge Toubiana
Cahiers du cinéma, 1976
2. Too Bad for You if You're Tired!
With Edmond El Maleh
Le Monde, 1981
3. The Visit to the People
With Serge Le Péron and Charles Tesson
Cahiers du cinéma, 1985
4. Politics of Writing
With Mônica Castro Netto
Philosophie, philosophie 1993
5. The Names of History, a History of Names
With Martyne Pierrot and Martin de la Soudière
Communications, 1994
6. The Ignorant Schoolmaster
With Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Isabelle Saint-Saëns
Vacarme, 1999
7. Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière
With Davide Panagia
Diacritics, 2000
8. Politics Is Not Coextensive with Life or the State
With Nicolas Poirier
Le Philosophoire, 2001
9. Politics and Aesthetics: An Interview
With Peter Hallward
Angelaki, 2003
10. Community as Dissensus
With François Noudelmann
Rue Descartes, 2003
11. Identifications of the People
With Diane Arnaud and Stéphane Bou
Simulacres, 2003 (issued never published)
12. The Actuality of The Ignorant Schoolmaster
With Andrea Benvenuto, Laurence Cornu and Patrice Vermeren
Le Télémache, 2005
13. Losing Too Is Still Ours: An Interview about the Thwarted Politics of Literature
With Martin Jalbert
Cahiers littéraires Contre-jour, 2005
14. The Indecisive Affect
With Patrice Blouin, Élie During and Dork Zabunyan
Critique, 2005
15. The New Anti-Democratic Discourse
With Amador Fernández-Savater
Archipélago, 2006
16. Art of the Possible:
With Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey
Artforum, 2007
17. Another Type of Universality
With Markus Klammer, Stéphane Montavon, Stefan Neuer and Mladen Gladic
Revue 31 - Das Magazin des Intituts für Theorie, 2007
18. Critique of the Critique of the 'Spectacle'
With Jérôme Game
RiLi - La Revue international des livres et des idées, 2009
19. Constructing the Spaces of Politics
With members of the Mouvement des Chômeurs et Précaires en Lutte de Rennes
Le Sabot, outil de liason locale sur Rennes et ses environs, 2009
20. It's Up to You to Invent the Rest
With Stéphane Delorme and Dork Zabunyan
Cahiers du cinéma, 2015
21. Back to Althusser
With Emiliano Battista, 2015
Works cited: Jacques Rancière
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