
The Future of the Image
Jacques Ranciere(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78873-654-1 (ISBN)
Description
In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Ranciere there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.
Reviews / Votes
Like all of Jacques Ranciere's texts, The Future of the Image is vertiginously precise. * Les Cahiers du Cinema * Ranciere's writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. -- Slavoj Zizek What we see here is Ranciere developing a unique voice as a political theorist. * Bookforum * French philosopher Jacques Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society. * Art Review * It's clear that Jacques Ranciere is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many--that is why he serves as such a signal reference today. -- Thomas Hirschhorn A series of gratifyingly knotty and close discussions of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, film and painting. * Guardian * "Much of the value of Ranciere's writings on art and aesthetics arises from his initial refusal of terms that are self-evident to the point of invisibility. " -- Frieze "It is too simplistic to say that Jacques Ranciere is the anti-Bourdieu. But it is not inaccurate. Robustly conceptual where Bourdieu is empirical, abstractly philosophical where Bourdieu was sociologically precise, he offers a recasting of aesthetic questions that attempts implicitly to rescue the category of the aesthetic from the learned helplessness, or cynical reason, in which Bourdieu left it." -- Nicholas Dames * n+1 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
137 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78873-654-1 (9781788736541)
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Jacques Ranciere
The Future of the Image
Book
02/2009
Verso Books
€33.61
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Persons
Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include Aisthesis, On the Shores of Politics, Hatred of Democracy and The Emancipated Spectator.