Disorienting Democracy: Politics of emancipation

ISBN-13: 9781032097626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Clare Woodford

Opis

The book aims to present a new and accessible way of interpreting and supplementing Jacques Rancière’s work in response to the growing inequality in Western democracy, and offers solutions to general readers, activists, and policy makers alike.

Spis treści

Introduction: Disorienting democracy

Disorienting the left and the limits of communism

Rejecting postdemocracy and rethinking the state of the left

Plotting our route

Dis-reconnaissance in preparation for voyage

Practicing dissensus

1. Equality: the twisted path of emancipation

‘Politics’ as appropriation, subjectivation and dis-identification

‘Politics’ can be willed

The ordinary in the extraordinary: how to decide between ‘politics’ or police

‘Politics’ and effectivity

Strategy: from police to ‘politics

2. Reflexivity: Untangling the revolution

The counter-revolutionary charge

Domination and emancipation in critical theory

Distinguishing domination via the aesthetics of knowledge

Christoph Menke and critical thinking as a practice of reflexivity

Reflexivity as dissensual practice

3. Aversivity: Thinking against conformity

Appropriating emancipation against conformity

Emancipation in Cavell’s aversive thinking

Dissensual community

Exemplars of dissent

Provoking the self through aversivity

4. Poeticity: from the glade of the cicadas to the island of the people

‘Literarity’ or ‘literariness’?

Rancière, writing and literarity

Re-tracing literarity against Derrida

Doubling democracy, doubling literature

Poeticity as play with meaning

5. Absurdity: aesthetics of subversion

Senses of absurdity

From theatre to the streets

Subversion as iteration in the work of Judith Butler

Reading Butler and Rancière together

Practicing absurdity, living the carnival

Reflections on revolutionising: a voyage without a compass

O autorze

Clare Woodford is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the School of Humanities, University of Brighton, UK