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Jacques Rancière: 1 Life and Work
Jacques Rancière: 1 Life and Work
2 Inuence
In 2006, it was reported that Rancires aesthetic theory had become a point of reference in the visual arts,
and Rancire has lectured at such art world events as
the Frieze Art Fair.[2] Former French presidential candidate Sgolne Royal described Rancire as her favourite
philosopher.[5]
3 Selected bibliography
More recently Rancire has written on the topic of human rights and specically the role of international hu- Rancires work in English translation
man rights organizations in asserting the authority to determine which groups of people again the problem of
Reading Capital (1968) (With Louis Althusser,
masses justify human rights interventions, and even
Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and tienne Balwar.
ibar - in the French original edition)
Rancires book, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five
Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (original title Le
Matre ignorant: Cinq leons sur l'mancipation intellectuelle, published in 1987) was written for educators
and educators-to-be. Through the story of Joseph Jacotot, Rancire challenges his readers to consider equality
as a starting point rather than a destination. In doing so,
he asks educators to abandon the themes and rhetoric of
cultural deciency and salvation. Rather than requiring
informed schoolmasters to guide students towards prescribed and alienating ends, Rancire argues that educators can channel the equal intelligence in all to facilitate
5 VIDEO LECTURES
The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge (1994) - This is a brief book, arguing for an
epistemological critique of the methods and goals of the
traditional study of history. It has been inuential in the
philosophy of history
Bela Tarr, the Time After (2013), tr. by Erik Beranek: ISBN 978-1937561154
Selected articles in English
by
4 Films
Marx Reloaded, Arte, April 2011.
5 Video lectures
Jacques Rancire. What Makes Images Unacceptable?" on YouTube Pacic Northwest College of
Art. Portland, Oregon, February 29, 2008
Jacques Rancire. Nights of Labour. on YouTube
Sarai Centre for the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). Video Lecture. February
6, 2009
Jacques Rancire. Negation and Cinematic Vertigo. European Graduate School. Video Lecture.
August 2009
Interviews
We Are Always Ignorant of our own Eects,
Jacques Rancire interviewed by Pablo Bustinduy,
in The Conversant, 2013
Democracy Means Equality, interview in Radical
Philosophy
Politics and Aesthetics, Jacques Ranciere interviewed by Peter Hallward, 2003
Eurozine interview with Ranciere, 2006
Art Is Going Elsewhere. And Politics Has to Catch
It, Jacques Rancire interviewed by Sudeep Dasgupta, 2008
'The Politics of Aesthetics: Jacques Rancire Interviewed by Nicolas Vieillescazes this interview piece
was rst posted: 12-01-09 at the website of Naked
Punch
Aesthetics against Incarnation: An Interview by
Anne Marie Oliver, Critical Inquiry, 2008
(French) Jean-Luc Godard, La religion de l'art.
Entretien avec Jacques Rancire paru dans CinmAction, O en est le God-Art ? , n 109,
2003, pp. 106112, reproduit sur le site d'analyse
L'oBservatoire (simple appareil).
References
External links
Jacques Rancire Faculty Page at European Graduate School
Blog. Discussions and updates on Jacques Rancire
With and Around Jacques Rancire. Art and Research. Volume 2. No. 1. Summer 2008
Thomas Campbell. Rancires Lessons.
Ben Davis. Jacques Rancire, The Politics of Aesthetics. artnet. Book Review. August 17, 2006.
Audio Recordings of guest lectures given at U.C.
Berkeley. February/March 2008
Luka Arsenjuk. On Jacques Rancire. Eurozine, 1
March 2007
(Spanish) Adolfo Vsquez Rocca. Jacques Rancire; politics and aisthesis
Eli Bornowsky. Notes on the Politics of Aesthetics.
Fillip. Book Review. 2006
Juha Suoranta (2010). Jacques Rancire on Radical
Equality and Adult Education. The Encyclopaedia
of Philosophy of Education
(French) Jacques Rancire, l'indisciplin". A
special issue of the journal Labyrinthe, 2004 (in
French)
Guantanamo, Justice, and Bushspeak: Prisoners of
the Innite, CounterPunch article (2002)
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