| 1940 |
Born in Algiers. |
| 1954 |
Beginning of the Algerian War. |
| 1960 |
Enters the École Normale Supérieure. Certificate of Higher Studies (Masters degree), thesis on Marx’s early writings. |
| 1961 |
Althusser seminar on the young Marx.
17 October: massacre of Algerian protesters by French police in the streets of Paris. |
| 1962 |
Althusser seminar on “the origins of structuralism”.
Evian accords; end of the Algerian War. |
| 1963 |
Althusser seminar on Lacan.
Student revolt, occupation of the Sorbonne. |
| 1965 |
Co-organizes Althusser seminar, “Reading Capital”, and gives paper on Marx’s concept of critique. Publication of first French version of Reading Capital in November. |
| 1967 |
First factory occupations by workers. |
| 1968 |
General strike following student revolt in May. In the following years, Ran-cière takes active part in the radical movement born of the 1968 uprising. |
| 1969 |
Long article, “Sur la théorie de l’idéologie” (“On the Theory of Ideology”), following the rupture with Althusser.
Lecturer in Philosophy at the newly founded Université de Paris Vincennes (Paris VIII). Begins a research group on the history of the labour movement. |
| 1973 |
New edition of Reading Capital, in which Rancière’s contribution is to be re-included (it was not in the 2nd, 1968 edition). Rancière’s self-critical foreword is rejected. The text appears in Les Temps modernes, 328, 1973 (HOW).
Occupation of the Lip factory by its workers. |
| 1974 |
La Leçon d’ Althusser. |
| 1975 |
Laparoleouvrière,1830–1851, anthology of workers’ writings edited and presented with Alain Faure.
First issue of Révolteslogiques, subtitled: “Notebooks of the Centre for Research into Ideologies of Revolt”. |
| 1977 |
“Portrait du vieil intellectuel en jeune dissident”, Le Nouvel Observateur (663, 25 July). |
| 1978 |
Special issue of Révolteslogiques, “Les lauriers de Mai” (“May’s laurels”), on the decade following May 1968. |
| 1981 |
The Nights of Labour (English trans. 1989), Rancière’s “doctorat d’Etat”. Election of the Socialist candidate, Francois Mitterrand, at French presidential elections. |
| 1982 |
Participation in the seminar of the Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political of Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy (with Derrida, Lyotard); publication in Le Retrait du politique. |
| 1983 |
The Philosopher and his Poor (English trans. 2004). |
| 1985 |
Louis-Gabriel Gauny, le philosophe plébien.
Last issue of Révoltes logiques. |
| 1986 |
Director of programmes at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (until 1992).
Massive student mobilization against university reforms. Rancière supports the movement. |
| 1987 |
The Ignorant Schoolmaster (English trans. 1991), Rancière’s intervention in the debate on education reform. |
| 1990 |
Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at Paris VIII.
First edition of On the Shores of Politics.
Short Voyages to the Land of the People (English trans. 2003). |
| 1992 |
The Names of History (English trans. 1994). |
| 1995 |
Disagreement (English trans. 1998).
Protracted social movement initiated by nurses; in December, general public sector strike. Bourdieu gives spectacular support to the movement. |
| 1996 |
Mallarmé:La politique de la sirène. |
| 1997 |
Arrêt sur histoire (with Jean-Louis Comolli).
Signs a petition, alongside other French intellectuals, for the liberation of Italian philosopher Toni Negri from incarceration in Italy.
Support for the “sans-papiers” movement (“undocumented”, or “illegal” immigrants). |
| 1998 |
La parole muette.
The Flesh of Words (English trans. 2004).
Second, enlarged edition of On the Shores of Politics (English trans. 2007). |
| 2000 |
The Politics of Aesthetics (English trans. 2004). |
| 2001 |
The Aesthetic Unconscious (English trans. 2009).
Film Fables (English trans. 2006), mostly articles published in film journals, Trafic and Cahiers ducinéma. |
| 2002 |
Retires from Paris VIII.
“Prisoners of the Infinite”, in Counterpunch (30 April), in reaction to the campaign for “Infinite Justice” (the initial name of the “war on terror”). |
| 2003 |
The Future of the Image (English trans. 2007).
Lesscènesdu peuple (Rancière’s contributions to Révoltes logiques). |
| 2004 |
Aesthetics and its Discontents (English trans. 2009). |
| 2005 |
Cerisy colloquium dedicated to Rancière’s work. Proceedings published in La philosophie déplacée, 2006.
Invited speaker at the Frieze Foundation, London. One of numerous invitations around the world, increasingly by art institutions.
The Hatred of Democracy (English trans. 2007).
Chroniquedestemps consensuels (collection of articles published in Brazilian newspapers).
L’espace des mots. |
| 2007 |
Politique de la littérature.
At the presidential elections, the Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, cites Rancière as a key reference. |
| 2008 |
The Emancipated Spectator (English trans. 2009). |
| 2009 |
Et tant pis pour les gens fatigués (collection of interviews).
Moments politiques (collection of political texts, 1977–2009). |