Tag Archives: Rancière

Gabriel Rockhill: “The Failure of the French Intelligentsia? Intellectuals and Uprisings in the Case of the Yellow Vests”

Posted on April 29, 2019 by

“Although France has the reputation of having a leftwing intelligentsia, some of the most visible theorists on the Left—including the self-proclaimed torchbearers of the ‘spirit of ’68’—have positioned themselves firmly against the movement or admonished it from the sidelines.”

Posted in Negri, Nota Bene, revolt, the Left, Žižek

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Jacques Rancière on the Gilets Jaunes Protests

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

“Significantly, these ‘apolitical’ people adopted the form of action of the outraged youth of the ‘squares’ movements, a form that the rebellious students had themselves borrowed from striking workers: occupation.”

Posted in disobedience, Nota Bene, power, revolt

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Jacques Rancière: “Democracy, Equality, Emancipation in a Changing World”

Posted on September 16, 2017 by

“A free social space … is a space where assemblies can practice forms of direct democracy intended … to make collective decisions on concrete matters. In such a way a form of political action tends to be at the same time the cell of another form of life. It is no longer a tool for preparing a future emancipation but a process of invention of forms of life and modes of thinking in which equality furthers equality.”

Posted in agonism, anarchism, autonomy, democracy, founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, power

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Robert Maggiori: “Rancière: Democracies on the move”

Posted on August 24, 2017 by

‘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?’

Posted in democracy, freedom, justice, Nota Bene, revolt, revolution, the common

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