The Emancipated Spectator - Softcover

Rancière

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677613 ISBN 13: 9781844677610

Publisher: Verso, 2011

Synopsis

In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

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Review:

In this follow-up to his fruitful The Future of the Image, French philosopher Rancière argues forcefully against familiar critiques of the 'spectacle' ... This persuasive argument is fleshed out through close readings of art, ­photography, literature and video installation, and a drily amusing analysis of leftwing 'melancholy' and 'rightwing frenzy' in critiques of ­capitalism. --Steven Poole, Guardian

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

The Emancipated Spectator is intended to improve our comprehension of art and deepen our grasp of the politics of perception ... [it has an] impressive concern with the political analysis of art and the use of imagery. --Times Higher Education

About the Author:

JACQUES RANCIERE 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 and The Nights of Labor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844677613
• ISBN 13: 9781844677610
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140