Name: The Future of the Image
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Author: Jacques Rancière
ISBN: 9781788736541

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Rancière

Publisher

Verso

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781788736541

Synopsis "The Future of the Image "

Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Rancière’s work returns politics to its central place in understanding art. In The Future of the Image,Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image incontemporary art, showing how art and politics have always beenintrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, andthinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard andGreenberg, Rancière shows that contemporary theorists of the image aresuffering from religious tendencies.He argues that there is a starkpolitical choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy,or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never apure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarianideals.

Jacques Rancière

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Jacques Rancière (born in 1940) is a French philosopher known for his studies in aesthetics, politics, and education. He became known as the co-author of Reading Capital (1974), where he criticized the positions of his former teacher, Louis Althusser. Throughout his career, he has developed a philosophy focused on equality and intellectual emancipation.

Among his most influential works are The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1987), where he explores emancipatory pedagogy; Disagreement (1995), an analysis of politics and language; and The Emancipated Spectator (2008), which questions passivity in art and politics. His work falls within the philosophical genre and has influenced various fields such as political theory, pedagogy, and aesthetics.

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