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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2009

 Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible

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Within a few years, the "partition of the sensible" (le partage du sensible) has become something of a household word in France. With this phrase, Jacques Rancière refers to the most basic system of categorization through which we perceive and intuitively classify the data provided to our senses. Literary critics, philosophers and theorists of aesthetics, but also sociologists and scholars interested in migrations - everybody seems to find in this catchy phrase what s/he always wanted to express, but never dared to say. I, of course, count myself among these people seduced by the partage du sensible. Its role as a hinge between politics and aesthetics proves extremely useful whenever one attempts to talk just about anything. Far from being weakened by its status of passe-partout, this phrase allows us to dig tunnels under disciplinary frontiers, it sets up an interface through which various approaches can interact and shed light on each other, it offers a foundational common ground on the basis of which we can better root and articulate our various reflections on some of today's most urgent problems.

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Yves Citton.  Political Agency and the Ambivalence of the Sensible. Jacques Rancière. History, Politics, Asthetics, Duke University Press, pp.120-139, 2009. ⟨hal-00847101⟩
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