TBLR/Bergen 29th and 30th Nov. 2012

On Jacques Rancire

 

 

CURRICULUM

 

Mandatory reading:

 

Book to buy:

 

Jacques Rancire, The Politics of Aesthetics. The Distribution of the Sensible, transl. and intr. Gabriel Rockhill, afterw. Slavoj Žižek, London: Continuum, 2004. (116 pp.)

                  This book must be purchased or lent. Available (for sale) at Studia University Bookstore at Parkveien (shelves for Comparative Literature), and at Norli Bookstore, Galleriet. TBLR/Bergen has placed a sufficiently large order of the book at Studia.

 

Downloads:

 

Jacques Rancire, Painting in the Text, The Future of the Image, transl. Gregory Elliott, London: Verso, 2007, pp. 69-89.

                  The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

Jacques Rancire, The Surface of Design, The Future of the Image, transl. Gregory Elliott, London: Verson, 2007, pp. 91-107.

                  The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

Jacques Rancire, Introduction, Aesthetics and Its Discontents, transl. Steven Corcoran, Cambridge: Polity, 2009, pp. 1-15.

                  The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

Jacques Rancire, Aesthetics as Politics, Aesthetics and Its Discontents, transl. Steven Corcoran, Cambridge: Polity, 2009, pp. 19-44.

The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

Jacques Rancire, The Emancipated Spectator, The Emancipated Spectator, transl. Gregoy Elliott, London: Verso, 2009, pp. 1-23.

                  The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

Jacques Rancire, The Misadventures of Critical Thought, The Emancipated Spectator, transl. Gregory Elliott, London: Verso, 2009, pp. 25-49.

                  The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

Jacques Rancire, Mute Speech. Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics, transl. James Swenson, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011;

the following chapters:

Introduction: From One Literature to Another (pp. 29-37): Ready for downloading;

 Chapter 1: From Representation to Expression (pp. 41-51): Ready for downloading;

 Chapter 2: From the Book of Stone to the Book of Life (pp. 52-61): Ready for downloading;

Chapter 3: The Book of Life and the Expression of Society (pp. 62-70): Ready for downloading.

 

 

Suggested further reading:

 

Gabriel Rockhills recent interview with Jacques Rancire, to be included in the forthcoming new edition of The Politics of Aesthetics (2013).

                  The article is available for downloading and printing by clicking here. Ready for downloading.

 

J. M. Bernstein, Movies as the Great Democratic Art Form of the Modern World (Notes on Rancire), Jacques Rancire and the Contemporary Scene: The Philosophy of Radical Equality, eds. Jean-Philippe Deranty and Alison Ross, London: Continuum, 2012, pp. 15-42.

 

Oliver Davis, Jacques Rancire, Cambridge: Polity, 2010, chs. 4 & 5.

 

Peter Hallward, Staging Equality: Rancire's Theatrocracy and the Limits of Anarchic Equality, Jacques Rancire: History, Politics, Aesthetics, eds. Gabriel Rockhill and Philip Watts, Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, pp.140-157.

 

Atle Kittang, Litteratur og politikk. Ei tilnrming til Jacques Rancires teoriar [Literature and Politics. An Approach to the Theories of Jacques Rancire], Syn og Segn 0407, Oslo:  pp. 36-43.

 

Atle Kittang, Diktekunstens relasjonar. Estetikk. Kultur. Politikk [The Art of Literature and Its Relations. Aesthetics. Culture. Politics], Oslo: Gyldendal, 2009.

 

Suhail Malik and Andrea Phillips, The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy, Reading Rancire, eds. Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp, London: Continuum, 2011, pp.110-128.

 

Rancire, Jacques, The Sociologist King and Afterword to the English-Language edition (2002), The Philosopher and His Poor, transl. John Drury, Corinne Oster and Andrew Parker, ed. and intr. by Andrew Parker, Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 165-202, and pp. 219-227.

 

Rancire, Jacques, Re-visions: Remarks of the Love of Cinema. An interview by Oliver Davis, Journal of Visual Culture 10, 3 (2011), pp. 294-304.

 

Rancire, Jacques, Aisthesis: Scnes du rgime esthtique de lart, Paris: Galile, 2011; in particular Prlude, pp. 9-17 [currently only available in French].

 

James Swenson, Style indirect libre, Jacques Rancire: History, Politics, Aesthetics, eds. Gabriel Rockhill and Philip Watts, Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 258-272.