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Archive of The Emancipated Spectator

    Verso Books
    24 August 2022
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    Should We All Log Off? Verso Student Reading on the Politics of Digital Culture

    How should we conceive the digital economy?

    Katharina Clausius
    08 July 2022
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    Arabesque Time

    The time of emancipation, in Rancière’s imagination, is not a progression towards truth and justice. It is rather, Katharina Clausius argues, a common ground whose gridlines sprout delicate tendrils that extend out, coil around, germinate new shoots that spiral out beyond its boundaries.

    Oliver Davis
    06 July 2022
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    The time we need must always be taken; never wait for it to be given

    Oliver Davis on neoliberalism's appropriation of the Marxist narrative of historical necessity. 

    Jussi Palmusaari
    04 July 2022
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    Transgressing Temporal Hierarchies

    Introducing the Verso roundtable on Modern Times, Jussi Palmusaari reflects on the underlying spatial logic of Rancière's conception of modernity and problematizes his notion of time as montage. If  time is not a line stretching from the past to the future, chaining causes and effects, how can it form the horizon for strategical political action?

    Jacques Rancière
    21 April 2022
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    Seven rules to help spread racist ideas in France

    This text, written by Jacques Ranciere more than 20 years ago, seems particularly relevant in the run-up to a presidential election that is already saturated with racist ideas, nonstop polemics and the obsessions of a far right that is guaranteed media coverage whether benevolent or pseudo-indignant.

    Verso Books
    16 November 2021
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    Jacques Rancière Bookshelf

    Complete your Rancière bookshelf with this reading list! 

    Verso Books
    22 March 2021
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    Our Big Spring Philosophy and Theory sale!

    40% off new Rancière editions, plus our bestselling political theory and philosophy books.

    McKenzie Wark
    12 February 2019
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    Elizabeth Povinelli: when the rocks turn their backs on us

    If biopower is the power to make live and let live, then what is geopower? What if the power that lay at the boundary between life and nonlife was becoming more important in the Anthropocene? McKenzie Wark approaches this question through a reading of recent work by Elizabeth Povinelli. 

    Robert Maggiori
    26 June 2017
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    Rancière: Democracies on the move

    Should we await le Grand Soir – the climactic "great night" of revolution? Or re-organise other common worlds in the here and now, making visible the capacities and intelligence of all those who live in them? 

    Nina PowerGeoffrey Nowell-Smith
    30 March 2017
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    Subversive Pasolini: La Ricotta and The Gospel According to Matthew — a conversation between Nina Power and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

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