Monday, 9 November 2009

JR: History, Politics, Aesthetics

http://www.amazon.com/Jacques-Ranci-egrave-Politics-Aesthetics/dp/0822345064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257740614&sr=8-1

The Aesthetic Unconscious

The Emancipated Spectator is just out in translation. Watch out also for this:

http://www.amazon.com/Aesthetic-Unconscious-Jacques-Ranciere/dp/0745646441/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257740047&sr=1-1

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Editions Amsterdam

http://editions-amsterdam.blogspot.com/

New book of interviews

http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article32710.php

Critique of Ignorant Schoolmaster

Just seen this concise and thought-provoking critique of The Ignorant Schoolmaster:

 

http://posthegemony.blogspot.com/2009/10/ignorant.html

 

 

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Ranciere and Queer Theory: Borderlands Issue

The issue of Borderlands on Rancière and Queer Theory is here:

 

http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol8no2.html

 

borderlands special issue: ToC

The special issue of Borderlands edited by Sam Chambers and Michael O'Rourke will be on-line very soon.

Here's the Table of Contents:


Rancière & queer theory
Volume 8 Number 2, 2009


"Jacques Rancière on the Shores of Queer Theory"
Editors: Samuel A. Chambers and Michael O'Rourke



INTRODUCTION

Samuel A. Chambers & Michael O'Rourke
Jacques Rancière on the Shores of Queer Theory

ESSAYS

Todd May
There are no Queers: Jacques Rancière and Post-Identity Politics

Samuel A. Chambers
A Queer Politics of the Democratic Miscount

Chas. Phillips
Difference, Disagreement and the Thinking of Queerness

Oliver Davis
Rancière and Queer Theory: On Irritable Attachment

Sudeep Dasgupta
Words, Bodies, Times: Queer Theory Before and After Itself

Nina Power
Non-Reproductive Futurism:
Rancière’s Rational Equality Against Edelman’s Body Apolitic

Hector Kollias
How Queer is the Demos? Politics, sex, and equality

Patricia MacCormack
Inhuman Evanescence

Richard Stamp
The Torsion of Politics and Friendship in Derrida, Foucault and Rancière

Paul Bowman
Aberrant Pedagogies: JR, QT and Bruce Lee

Roger Cook
Aesthetic Revolution, the Staging of (‘Homosexual’) Equality and Contemporary Art

Daniel Williford
Queer Aesthetics

AFTERWORD

Adrian Rifkin
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside (Now Voyager) ... on misunderstanding Rancière and Queer Theory