The Future of the Image

The Future of the Image

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A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.

Reviews

  • Like all of Jacques Rancière’s texts, The Future of the Image is vertiginously precise.

    Les Cahiers du Cinema
  • Ranciere's writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist.

    Slavoj Zizek
  • What we see here is Ranciere developing a unique voice as a political theorist.

    Bookforum