scholarly journals Jacques Rancière and Critical Theory: Issue Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Adam Burgos

Overview of the special issue on Jacques Ranciere and Critical Theory, along with some additional thoughts.

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-126
Author(s):  
Matthew Lampert

While Jacques Rancière has never been affiliated in any way with the Institute for Social Research, this article examines the extent to which his work could be considered “Critical Theory” in the sense most closely associated with the Frankfurt School tradition. I argue that Rancière’s work is not critical theory in this narrow sense; I further lay out a kind of “Rancièrean” criticism of the very project of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. This in turn allows me to sketch out a version of Critical Theory that might survive a Rancièrean critique. Even by this renewed conception, however, I argue that Rancière’s own work still cannot be considered a project of Critical Theory; but I finish the essay by laying out what a possible “Rancièrean” Critical Theory might look like, and why I think such a project would be valuable.


Author(s):  
Leander Scholz

Der Aufsatz geht der These nach, daß die Fundierung der politischen Theorie in einer ästhetischen Theorie bei Jacques Rancière eine Aktualisierung der Losung der Brüderlichkeit aus der Französischen Revolution darstellt. Diese Aktualisierung der Brüderlichkeit als »ästhetische Gemeinschaft« erlaubt es Rancière, an den Klassenbegriff von Marx anzuschließen, ohne die damit verbundene Gemeinschaftserfahrung begrifflich bestimmen und damit an positive Merkmale binden zu müssen. Weil Rancière seine Demokratietheorie vor allem als eine Interventionstheorie angelegt hat, soll die »ästhetische Gemeinschaft« im Unterschied zum Klassenbegriff es ermöglichen, eine prinzipiell unabgeschlossene Reihe von politischen Subjektivierungsprozessen zu denken. Um diese These zu schärfen, wird Rancières Demokratietheorie mit der von Jacques Derrida verglichen, der auf ganz ähnliche Weise das Demokratische der Demokratie in einem Streit gegeben sieht, der jenseits von demokratischen Spielregeln stattfindet, die Losung der Brüderlichkeit jedoch für überaus problematisch hält.<br><br>This article argues that the foundation of political theory in aesthetics by Jacques Rancière can be seen as an actualization of the slogan of fraternalism during the French Revolution. This actualization of fraternalism as »aesthetic community« gives Rancière the possibility to operate with the Marxian concept of classes without positively defining the experience of community. Because Rancière understands democracy as the chance for political intervention, the concept of an »aesthetic community« (as opposed to the traditional concept of classes) allows him to posit an endless process of political subjectification. To sharpen this argument, the article compares Rancière’s understanding of democracy to Jacques Derrida’s, who also focuses on a democratic struggle beyond democratic rules, but is very skeptical about the slogan of fraternalism.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (24) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Chirsty Beatriz Najarro Guzmán

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-784X.2015v15n24p23Entre a realidade e sua representação imagética, intervém a subjetividade de quem capta essa realidade, cujas condições intelectuais, sociais e culturais se articulam para a configuração analógica e dessemelhante do rosto imagético, conforme as considerações de Jacques Rancière sobre a natureza das imagens. Nesse sentido, não só se contesta a existência de um discurso único sobre um evento histórico, mas também a univocidade de tal evento. Levando isso em consideração, o documentário 1932: cicatriz en la memoria (2005), dirigido por Carlos Hernríquez Consalvi, para o Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI) de El Salvador, apresenta uma narrativa que compreende o levante popular e etnocídio cultural de 1932, como a semente do Partido Comunista (PC) salvadorenho, ao mesmo tempo em que na entrelinha se tece uma contra-narrativa, cuja linha de pensamento vai no sentido contrário, colocando o indígena como protagonista, contestando o discurso oficial sobre os eventos.


SubStance ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Michele Garneau ◽  
James Cisneros

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