Rome, 29/03/2019. Today, MACRO Asilo (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, 1.) presented the Lectio Magistralis "Questioni di Frontiera. Arte, politica ed etica oggi" (Matters of Border. Art, Politics and Ethics Today, 2.) hosted by Jacque Rancière. <<[..] Over the last fifteen years, his work has slowly been translated into English, and yet, while some of his writings remain untranslated into this global language, he has nonetheless already cast a long shadow over the...
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Rome, 29/03/2019. Today, MACRO Asilo (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, 1.) presented the Lectio Magistralis "Questioni di Frontiera. Arte, politica ed etica oggi" (Matters of Border. Art, Politics and Ethics Today, 2.) hosted by Jacque Rancière. <<[..] Over the last fifteen years, his work has slowly been translated into English, and yet, while some of his writings remain untranslated into this global language, he has nonetheless already cast a long shadow over the fields of politics, aesthetics, and education, [..] It is somewhat difficult to categorize much of Rancière's work, especially his archival texts, but the overarching focus has certainly always been politics. Within this classification, it is, however, possible to more delicately divide his work into three "primary" categories as mentioned above: aesthetics, education, and politics. Yet the overarching political project of Rancière does not, however, only consist of these three categories independently but is constituted by their entanglement; as for Rancière, aesthetics and politics are intrinsically linked, and "true" education must be emancipatory, an objective that demands equality not as an end but as a point of departure. As a result, politics is not only a string of his project, but what knots its three elements -in brief, politics overdetermines the whole [..]>> (Source, European Graduate School, 3.). Jacque Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and one of the more significant and influential philosophers of our time. He is author of numerous books and publications, amongst others he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the structuralist Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.
Footnotes:
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https://www.museomacro.it/
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https://bit.ly/2V3uDWM
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https://bit.ly/2WBsaDi
https://bit.ly/2UnKXEx (Wikipedia)
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