Cutting up the Sensible : Rancièrian Politics in a Posthumanist Perspective
Gammelgaard, Signe LU
(2014)
In Artnodes
p.51-56
- Abstract
- Ethics and politics in a new materialist framework are key issues in current debates and spark research in a wide array of fields from matters of sex and gender to ecology and art theory. However, a definition of politics, and how it relates to democracy, is often left out of these discussions. This article addresses that issue through the theory of radical democracy and politics as rupture from Jacques Rancière’s writings and draws a comparison with Karen Barad’s notions of indeterminacy and onto-epistemology. Whereas Rancière takes as his starting point the definition of democracy as equality, Barad interrogates the world in its onto-epistemological condition. By developing points of intersection between these two theoretical approaches,... (More)
- Ethics and politics in a new materialist framework are key issues in current debates and spark research in a wide array of fields from matters of sex and gender to ecology and art theory. However, a definition of politics, and how it relates to democracy, is often left out of these discussions. This article addresses that issue through the theory of radical democracy and politics as rupture from Jacques Rancière’s writings and draws a comparison with Karen Barad’s notions of indeterminacy and onto-epistemology. Whereas Rancière takes as his starting point the definition of democracy as equality, Barad interrogates the world in its onto-epistemological condition. By developing points of intersection between these two theoretical approaches, the problem of politics in new materialism is discussed and some initial steps to take Ranciere’s work into the field of ontology and epistemology are sketched out. The focus is on the relationship between the Baradian “cut” and Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible” and on how both illuminate possibilities of emergence rather than accessibility. The article concludes by addressing politics as possibilities for change. (Less)
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- 2014
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- 14
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- Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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- 1695-5951
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- 10.7238/a.v0i14.2409
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