n 5 a ad a n [| aAlso available from Continuum: DISSENSUS On Politics and Aesthetics Jacques Ranciére Edited and Translated by Steven Corcoran XS continuumContinuum International Publishing 6 The Tower Building 80 Maiden L 11 York Road Suite 704 London SEL 7NX New York NY 10 1 wcontinuumbooks.com » Jacques Rancidze and Steven Corcoran, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or ransmitted in any forrs or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includ photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval syste ‘without prior permission in welting from the publishers, British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue recotd for this book is available from the British Libra Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Randire, Jacque Dissensus on politics and aesthetics / Jacques Ranelére; edited and translated by Steven Corcoran. Inchides index. ISBN-13:978-1-84706-445-5, ISBN-10: 1-84706-445-0 1. Political sclence--Philosophy, 2. Aesthetes-Politcal aspects. 1. Corcoran, Steve. H. Tile JA71.R36 2010 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennal, India Printed and bound In Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, Bodmin and kings Lynn Contents Acknowledgements, Editor's Introduction Part I The Aesthetics of Politics 1 Ten Theses on Politics Does Democracy Mean Something? Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man? Communism: From Actuality to Inactuality The People or the Multitudes? Biopolities or Politics? September 11 and Afterwards: A Rupture in the Symbolic Order? Of War as the Supreme Form of Advanced Plutocratic Consensus Part Il The Politics of Aesthetics 9. The Aesthetic Revolution and lis Outcomes 10. The Paradoxes of Political Art LL The Polities of Literature