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Archive of The Intellectual and His People

    Verso Books
    24 August 2022
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    Critical Theory: Verso Student Reading

    Our Critical Theory reading for the academic year ahead, featuring McKenzie Wark, Erik Olin Wright, Judith Butler, and more.

    Katharina Clausius
    08 July 2022
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    Arabesque Time

    The time of emancipation, in Rancière’s imagination, is not a progression towards truth and justice. It is rather, Katharina Clausius argues, a common ground whose gridlines sprout delicate tendrils that extend out, coil around, germinate new shoots that spiral out beyond its boundaries.

    Oliver Davis
    06 July 2022
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    The time we need must always be taken; never wait for it to be given

    Oliver Davis on neoliberalism's appropriation of the Marxist narrative of historical necessity. 

    Jacques Rancière
    21 April 2022
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    Seven rules to help spread racist ideas in France

    This text, written by Jacques Ranciere more than 20 years ago, seems particularly relevant in the run-up to a presidential election that is already saturated with racist ideas, nonstop polemics and the obsessions of a far right that is guaranteed media coverage whether benevolent or pseudo-indignant.

    Verso Books
    16 November 2021
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    Jacques Rancière Bookshelf

    Complete your Rancière bookshelf with this reading list! 

    Verso Books
    26 March 2021
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    The Painter, the People and the Union

    In this new edition of a classic, The Intellectual and His People, Jacques Rancière analyzes a question key to struggle: How does the intellectual relate to the masses they theorize about and, ultimately, for?

    Verso Books
    22 March 2021
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    Our Big Spring Philosophy and Theory sale!

    40% off new Rancière editions, plus our bestselling political theory and philosophy books.

    Robert Maggiori
    26 June 2017
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    Rancière: Democracies on the move

    Should we await le Grand Soir – the climactic "great night" of revolution? Or re-organise other common worlds in the here and now, making visible the capacities and intelligence of all those who live in them? 

    Mathieu MolardTomas Statius
    17 May 2017
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    A Joint and a Compass: Razmig Keucheyan on political theory today

    There is a famous line in Lenin saying that "without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." That is a very profound phrase. Theory serves for two things: to join together struggles that are apparently unrelated, and also as a compass in periods of crisis. It is what tells you whether in this precise moment you should be smashing up banks or standing in elections.

    Jacques Rancière
    02 May 2017
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    Attacks on "populism" seek to enshrine the idea that there is no alternative

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