Dissensus by Jacques Rancière
On Politics and Aesthetics
Argues that true politics is not the management of consensus but moments of dissensus in which the prevailing "distribution of the sensible"—what counts as visible, sayable, and who is counted as a subject—is ruptured; political action consists in reconfiguring the partition of roles and spaces so that previously excluded voices and forms of equality become visible. The work contrasts the police order (the administration of the social and its established categories) with politics as disruptive reappearance, shows how aesthetic experiences and practices can make these reconfigurations perceptible, and reframes democracy as an ongoing practice of disagreement and the assertion of equality rather than the achievement of harmonious consensus.
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