What’s the problem with critical art?
Hal Foster: Rancière’s Aesthetics, 10 October 2013
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
by Jacques Rancière, translated by Zakir Paul.
Verso, 272 pp., £20, June 2013,978 1 78168 089 6 Show More
by Jacques Rancière, translated by Zakir Paul.
Verso, 272 pp., £20, June 2013,
“... In the fierce critiques that the charismatic thinkers of postwar France directed at each other – Lévi-Strauss v. Sartre, Foucault v. Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari v. Lacan, to pick out just a few – the theoretical stakes were high, and the political implications seemed momentous. One could talk, seriously, of the ‘politics of theory’, and many of us distant onlookers did so ... ”