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

Editor's Preface, Emiliano Battista


1. The Fraternal Image
With Serge Daney and Serge Toubiana
Cahiers du ciné ma, 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 Pé ron and Charles Tesson
Cahiers du ciné ma, 1985
4. Politics of Writing
With Mô nica Castro Netto
Philosophie, philosophie 1993
5. The Names of History, a History of Names
With Martyne Pierrot and Martin de la Soudiè re
Communications, 1994
6. The Ignorant Schoolmaster
With Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Isabelle Saint-Saë ns
Vacarme, 1999
7. Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Ranciè re
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 Franç ois Noudelmann
Rue Descartes, 2003
11. Identifications of the People
With Diane Arnaud and Sté phane Bou
Simulacres, 2003 (issued never published)
12. The Actuality of The Ignorant Schoolmaster
With Andrea Benvenuto, Laurence Cornu and Patrice Vermeren
Le Té lé mache, 2005
13. Losing Too Is Still Ours: An Interview about the Thwarted Politics of Literature
With Martin Jalbert
Cahiers litté raires Contre-jour, 2005
14. The Indecisive Affect
With Patrice Blouin, É lie During and Dork Zabunyan
Critique, 2005
15. The New Anti-Democratic Discourse
With Amador Ferná ndez-Savater
Archipé lago, 2006
16. Art of the Possible:
With Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey
Artforum, 2007
17. Another Type of Universality
With Markus Klammer, Sté phane Montavon, Stefan Neuer and Mladen Gladic
Revue 31 - Das Magazin des Intituts fü r Theorie, 2007
18. Critique of the Critique of the 'Spectacle'
With Jé rô me Game
RiLi - La Revue international des livres et des idé es, 2009
19. Constructing the Spaces of Politics
With members of the Mouvement des Chô meurs et Pré caires 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 Sté phane Delorme and Dork Zabunyan
Cahiers du ciné ma, 2015
21. Back to Althusser
With Emiliano Battista, 2015

Works cited: Jacques Ranciè re
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