Bowman Paul - Reading Ranciere: Critical Dissensus

Reading Rancire

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Reading Rancire

Edited by
Paul Bowman
and
Richard Stamp

Continuum International Publishing Group

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Paul Bowman, Richard Stamp and Contributors, 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reading Rancire / edited by Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 9781441186775

1.Rancire, Jacques. I. Bowman, Paul, 1971- II. Stamp, Richard, 1968- III. Title.

B2430.R274R43 2011

194dc22

2010043094

Notes on Contributors

Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) is author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies (2007), Deconstructing Popular Culture (2008) and Theorizing Bruce Lee (2010). He is editor of numerous journal issues and several other books, including The Truth of iek (2006), also co-edited with Richard Stamp and published by Continuum.

Samuel A. Chambers teaches political theory at Johns Hopkins University. He has recently published The Queer Politics of Television (IB Tauris 2009). His previous publications include the monographs Untimely Politics (NYU 2003) and Judith Butler and Political Theory (with Terrell Carver, Routledge 2008), edited volumes on William Connolly and Judith Butler, respectively, and numerous journal articles. His current teaching and research revolves around intersections between queer theory and contemporary political thought and is oriented to the task of rethinking democracy outside the terms of contemporary liberalism. He is currently writing a book on the politics of social orders in which he tries to link Althussers understanding of ideology and Rancires conception of police with the American political thought of Madison and Bentley.

Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University. She has published extensively on literature, film and cultural theory, with a focus on the discursive encounters among modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality and ethnicity. Before Duke, Chow was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. The books she has authored include Woman and Chinese Modernity, Writing Diaspora, Ethics after Idealism, The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films. Her current work includes a co-edited special issue, The Sense of Sound, for the journal differences, and an essay collection in progress, Entanglements: Trans-medial Thinking about Capture. The Rey Chow Reader, ed. Paul Bowman, is available from Columbia University Press.

Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, and Erasmus Chair in the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is co-editor of the journal Theory and Event. Her ninth book, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, was published in 2009 from Duke University Press.

Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are: A Passion for Cultural Studies (Palgrave 2008); Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (Routledge 2010); and the edited collection The Design Culture Reader (Routledge 2009). Currently he is working on a book called The Great Indoors: An Intimate History of the British House (due to be published in 2012).

Suhail Malik is Reader in Critical Studies in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London. Malik is currently working on a philosophy of American power and (with Andrea Phillips) a book on transnational aesthetics.

Oliver Marchart is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne. His books include Post-foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (Edinburgh University Press 2007), and Laclau: A Critical Reader, ed. with Simon Critchley (Routledge 2004).

Linsey McGoey is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. She completed a PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics, followed by postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford. Her research examines the uses of ignorance as a productive tool for exonerating blame and asserting expertise in modern liberal democracies.

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. His books include Deconstruction after 9/11 (2009), The Origins of Deconstruction (ed., 2009), Deconstruction Reading Politics (ed., 2009), The Politics of Deconstruction (2007) and Paul de Man (2001). Forthcoming books include Roland Barthes (Or The Profession of Cultural Studies).

Andrea Phillips is Reader in Fine Art at the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of the Doctoral Research Programme. She works on art, architecture, politics, institution-making and urban regeneration, and her current research projects include the aesthetic formatting of transnational space and its relation to contemporary art, the future and implications of practice-based research, and Building Democracy, a set of publications and discussions that forefront critiques of participation in contemporary art and architecture.

Jacques Rancire is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII (Saint-Denis). Born in Algiers in 1940, he is the author of numerous books dealing with aesthetics, politics and their relationships. His oeuvre includes such diverse landmarks as The Nights of Labour, The Ignorant Schoolmaster and The Flesh of Words, as well as Disagreement and Film Fables. His most recent book in English is The Emancipated Spectator.

Mark Robson teaches at the University of Nottingham. His publications include Stephen Greenblatt (2008),