The Future of the Image - Softcover

Jacques Rancière

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788736540 ISBN 13: 9781788736541

Publisher: Verso, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Rancieres writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. --Slavoj Zizek

A series of gratifyingly knotty and close discussions of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, film and painting. --Guardian

French philosopher Jacques Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society. --Art Review

Much of the value of Rancière s writings on art and aesthetics arises from his initial refusal of terms that are self-evident to the point of invisibility. -Frieze

It is too simplistic to say that Jacques Rancière is the anti-Bourdieu. But it is not inaccurate. Robustly conceptual where Bourdieu is empirical, abstractly philosophical where Bourdieu was sociologically precise, he offers a recasting of aesthetic questions that attempts implicitly to rescue the category of the aesthetic from the learned helplessness, or cynical reason, in which Bourdieu left it. --Nicholas Dames, n+1

About the Author:

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1788736540
• ISBN 13: 9781788736541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160