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• 13 Apr 11
  

  maiko tanaka
  • Rather than setting out how art and aesthetic 'redistiributions' and 'reorderings' of the sensible differ from capitalism's constant drive to produce new tastes and desires, and how this gives agency to those excluded from the dominant order of sense/politcs, he uttered a few words on the excess 'capacity' of the social that is never exhausted by capital.
  • ‘the power to declassify’
  • your conception of politics as ‘a theatrical and artificial sphere
  • However, politics as disruption of the sensible order finds a parallel in commerce – particularly in the present – where profits are increasingly made through reordering and subverting existing visual, affective and semiotic codes.
  • What are the advantages to thinking politics in terms of artifice and theatricality when such a notion already permeates the spectrum of contemporary labour and is, by some accounts, hindering the possibility of politics?

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• 02 May 08
  

  ranciere politics capital

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