D.A.N.
4 FEBRUARY 2008
The Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics (and/as an Ethics) reading group, facilitated by Robert Summers concluded yesterday. I will try and have Robert write his thoughts about the three meetings here sometime soon, but in the meantime I wanted to post an interesting outcome of the course -- the supplementary syllabus (below). It quickly became clear that Ranciere's political thought prior to the publication of The Politics of Aesthetics was better developed and his aesthetic writings since showed that he is very much in the initial stages of working through some of these ideas. When we learn that this book is actually something of an author-less assemblage, it seems very arbitrary to stop at the limits of its pages.
The Emancipated Spectator
Glossary of Technical Terms
The Aesthetic Revolution
The Politics of Aesthetics / The Aesthetics of Politics
Aesthetics and Politics: Rethinking the Link
The Rationality of Disagreement