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Achilles 123

action

collective 70, 79

creative 130, 184–5

in film 175

of masses 106–12

noble 120, 140–41

political 51, 53, 68, 72, 74, 76–7, 82, 87, 96–9, 103

representation of 122–6, 138, 156

of spectators 101

versus pathos in aesthetic regime 129, 159, 179

Adorno, Theodor. W 101, 142

aesthetic, see also regimes of the arts

autonomy 152, 161–5, 172

dimension of politics 95–6, 99–103, 134–5

experience 36–7, 161, 168

regime 113, 121–9, 137, 155–7, 161–5, 170–72

unconscious 129

Agamben, Giorgio 52–3

Algerian War 2, 50

Althusser, Louis 2–4, 33, 35, 39–40, 42, 50, 95, 97–8, 101, 112, 148

Arendt, Hannah 57, 65

Aristotle 10, 45–8, 57, 73–4, 77, 86–9, 108, 121–2, 124, 146

Auerbach, Erich 118, 120, 138

Arts and Craft Movement 162

Bacon, Francis 159

Badiou, Alain 1, 4, 11, 81, 8–6, 91–2, 183–5

Ballanche, Pierre-Simon 102, 137

Balzac, Honoré de 114, 126, 134, 156

Barthes, Roland 109, 154, 157–8

Bataille, Georges 160

Baudelaire, Charles 125

Baudrillard, Jean 50, 182

Bazin, André 170, 177

Behrens, Peter 162–3

Benoist, Alain de 92

Blanchot, Maurice 134, 145

Bourdieu, Pierre 33, 35, 43, 80, 84–5, 101, 109–10

Bourriaud, Nicolas 167

Bouvard and Pécuchet 144

Bovary, Emma 126, 140, 142, 146, 171

Braudel, Fernand 105–7

Cabet, Etienne 21

Chardin, Jean-Siméon 160

Chateaubriand, François-René de 111

Commune (Paris) 18, 86

communism 2, 106

Communist Party 3, 8, 39, 40, 106

Courbet, Gustave 157

Deleuze, Gilles 1, 4, 135, 148–9, 159–60, 164, 170, 176–81

“ Democracy” (Rimbaud) 5, 18

democracy see also politics

anarchic 108, 113

ancient 45, 47, 66

hatred of 13, 53–4, 64, 153

liberal/bourgeois 46, 90, 173

modern 134

radical 9, 11, 54, 147

representative 47, 54, 66

scandal of 30, 47, 64–5, 80

synonymous with politics 53, 66–8, 70, 81

demos 46, 49, 65, 70–75, 78–9, 81, 83, 88–9

Denis, Maurice 159

Deroin, Jeanne 21

Derrida, Jacques 1, 10, 108, 129, 153

Despard, Edward 112

Diderot, Denis 36

disagreement 10, 51, 73–6, 82, 100, 185

dissensus 53, 95–100

domination see oligarchy, police

and ideology 3, 109

in political orders 59, 64, 67, 78, 80–82

social 3–5, 11, 110

education see also knowledge and learning

Bourdieu’s sociology of 109–10

Jacotot’s theory of 6–7, 27–37, 77, 114

and the republic 48, 84–5

emancipation see also democracy, politics

and “distribution of the sensible” 98–103

intellectual 6, 23, 25–37, 98

political 21, 41, 82

universal 90

Enfantin, Barthélémy Prosper 21

Epstein, Jean 170–72, 175

equality see also democracy, wrong, police

axiom/presupposed 11–12, 32, 72, 77, 109, 144, 150, 152, 183

of intelligences 28–33, 37, 77, 98, 109

in literature and aesthetics 11–12, 24, 133–4, 137–8

and political action 77–8, 122

in political theory 69–71, 91

radical 3, 6–7, 9, 13, 43, 184

“everything speaks” 12, 126, 157

expressivity 129, 134–5, 146, 149, 170–78

fable 119, 169–82

Farge, Arlette 110

Faure, Elie 181

Ferry, Jules 85

Ferry, Luc 58

Flaubert, Gustave 42, 114, 126, 134, 140–47, 156, 171–2, 175

Foucault, Michel 1, 4, 9–10, 53, 61, 78, 105, 155, 185

Fourier, Joseph 20

freedom

as equality 85, 183–5

political 38

Frost, John 112

Furet, Francois 106–7

Gauny, Louis-Gabriel 6, 21, 111

Godard, Jean-Luc 166, 170, 177, 179–81

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 111, 115

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules 160

Gramsci, Antonio 40–42

Greenberg, Clement 154, 159

Guha, Ranajit 113

Haacke, Hans 165

Habermas, Jürgen 9–10, 101

Heartfield, John 165

Hegel, G. W F. 39, 117, 127–8, 139, 153, 157–8, 168, 169

Henson, Gravener 112

hierarchy see domination, oligarchy, police

history

of art 151, 153, 155, 160–61

of film 175, 177

Godard’s Histoire(s) 179–82

heretical 110–12

“history from below” 5–6, 10, 104, 111

Michelet’s 107–8, 135, 142, 146–7, 179

“names of” 112, 188

of philosophy 38, 43, 54

subjects of 41, 44–6, 108, 146, 179

versus poetry (Aristotle) 146

writing/historiography 12, 96, 104–14, 135, 146–9, 179–81

Hitchcock, Alfred 178–81

Hobbes, Thomas 38, 48–9, 53, 80, 88

Hölderlin, Friedrich 127

Homer 127

Hugo, Victor 142, 157

human

equality 3, 6, 38, 43, 49

inhuman (critique of) 52–3, 164

intelligence 7–8, 26, 30

language 74, 102, 117, 126–8

humanism

Rancière’s thinking 184–5

tendency of contemporary art 167

ignorance

expert versus ignorant 30, 37, 65, 125

schoolmaster 27–8, 98

image

in aesthetic regime 155–6

definition 118

fate of 119

sentence-image 163–4

versus text 124, 128

inequality

and the “distribution of the sensible” 11, 98

and knowledge 28–32, 98, 101–2

and politics 73, 96, 184

as structure of social orders 7–8, 59, 64

Intellectuals 3–5, 18, 33, 38, 42, 45, 53–4, 110

Jaar, Alfredo 159

Jacotot, Joseph 6–9, 25–37, 77, 98, 114, 143

Joyce, James 172

Kant, Immanuel 138, 151, 153, 161, 164, 168

knowledge

and authority 28–30, 37, 98

distribution of 84

as ideology 43–4

poetics of 95, 104–10, 145–6, 150

labour

division of 3–4, 29, 111, 128, 136

history of 1, 5, 12, 19, 49, 119

intellectual 3–4, 41

manual 3–4, 46, 109, 111

movement 1, 5–6, 12, 20–23, 31, 119

“nights of” 18–22

“Land of the People” 18, 23–4

Lang, Fritz 170, 173, 175–6, 182

learning 7, 26–8, 31, 36

liberal

democracy 45–6

state 10

theory 70–72

liberalism see also neo-liberalism, social-liberalism

interest-group- 61

literarity 13, 133–50

Levinas, Emmanuel 10

Lubitsch, Ernst 180

Lyotard, Jean-Francois 1, 4, 10, 50–51, 53, 129, 164, 185

Malevich, Kazimir 172

Mallarmé, Stéphane 12, 18, 134, 145, 162–3, 166

Manet, Edouard 157

Mao Tse-Toung 8

Marx, Karl 2–4, 9–10, 19, 40, 42–3, 57, 80, 90, 117

Marxism 3, 9, 17, 19–20, 38–45, 90–91

materiality

chaotic 158

of image 124–5, 154–5

of language 7, 161, 163

materialism

historical 3, 33

Rancière’s 183, 187

May ‘68 1–5, 17, 19, 40, 50

Melville, Herman 134, 148

Menzel, Adolph von 157

Michelet, Jules 104, 107, 108, 135, 142, 146, 147, 179

mimesis 108, 118, 120, 126, 155–6, 173–6

Mitterrand, President Francois 8

modernity

aesthetic 13, 18, 124, 134, 151–8, 165

cinematographic 170–77

political 23, 46, 87

montage 14, 155, 163–8, 170, 172, 177–82

“mute speech” 13, 134–5, 143, 145–6, 148

neo-liberalism 9, 106

oligarchy 57–8, 61, 64–8

Oedipus 123–4, 129, 138

Paine, Thomas 112

parataxis see materiality

partage du sensible (distribution of the sensible) 11, 63, 95–103, 117, 136, 145, 147, 152, 187

people (the) see also demos 9, 12, 20, 34, 37, 42, 50–54, 65–6, 70–73, 75, 81, 83–5, 89, 92, 108, 122, 142, 179

philosophy see political and politics

Plato 10, 43–7, 57–60, 64–5, 68, 80–86, 108, 121, 143

police see also oligarchy, politics

definition of 62

and distribution of the sensible 97–9

order 70–76

in Plato’s Republic 59–60

violence 2, 72

political, the 10, 71, 87

political movement 73, 78

political philosophy/theory 9, 10–13, 38, 43–9, 52–4, 57–9, 69–70, 80–86, 136, 184–6

political subject (subjectification) 10, 31–4, 44–6, 50–52, 75–8, 84–5, 100–102

Politics (Aristotle) 73–4, 87

politics see also democracy

and aesthetics 100–101, 116–20, 133–6, 179

archipolitics 10, 46, 80–81, 83–6

and art 152, 159–68, 175

biopolitics 53–4

and equality of intelligences 29–32

and literature 136–9, 141–3, 150

metapolitics 10, 80–81, 89–92

parapolitics 10, 46, 80–81, 86–90

and philosophy 80, 82, 86, 92

and poetics 12, 37

versus police 10, 60–67, 70–71

Pop Art 157

post-revolution 11, 13, 139–40

post-romanticism 13–14

power see also politics

of art 158

distribution of 87

Foucault 20, 78

of images 110, 163–4, 175–81

of intelligence 28, 30–31, 36–7, 54, 157

and knowledge 30, 34, 110, 112

sovereign 48–9, 53, 88–9

and speech 4, 59, 84, 123–6

state 2, 5, 8, 66, 106

Rawls, John 9, 57

regimes of the arts 13, 116–31, 137–40, 144–8

Renaut, Alain 58

revolts

Canuts 20

logical 4–5, 17–18, 21

workers 17–18, 20

revolution see also post-revolution

of 1830 21

of 1848 20

aesthetic/poetic 12, 37, 133

Cuban 2

cultural 3

democratic 20, 96

French 86, 106–8, 112, 114

political 13, 90, 124

Russian 41

rights

citizen 52

civil 67, 72

civil rights movement 72

human 22, 53, 79, 82

Rimbaud, Arthur 5, 18

romantic art/aesthetics 134, 139, 149, 155, 182

romantic literature/poetry 12, 107, 126–8

romanticism see also expressivity, literarity, post-romanticism

British 125

German 153

Hegel’s critique of 127, 128, 139

and realism 155–6

Rosler, Martha 165

Ross, Kristin 19, 33, 34, 106

Rosselini, Roberto 110

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 49, 97

Saint-Simonianism 20–21, 186

Sartre, Jean-Paul 38, 43–5, 142, 145

Schiller, Friedrich 127

Schönberg, Arnold 172

Soboul, Albert 106

social-liberalism 9

socialism 19, 70

“Socialisme ou Barbarie” 50

socialists 8, 18, 33, 70

socialist realism 37

Socrates 29, 59, 83, 86

Soviet socialism 44

Spenser, Thomas 112

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty 113

Stael, Anne L. G. de 113

Stendhal 108

struggle

class 3, 5, 17, 19, 39–44, 49, 89–91

democratic 67–8

against domination 22, 152

political 79, 97

subject, subjectification see political

symbol/symbolic see also aesthetic regime

of collective life 161–3

montage 165–8

principle of aesthetic regime 125, 129

violence and social hierarchy 4, 43, 61, 85, 102

Tacitus 113–14

Thompson, E. P 5, 111–13

Tolstoy, Leo 126

Ulysses 123

Véret, Désirée 21

Vietnam War 2, 165

Vinçard, Pierre 21

Voilquin, Suzanne 20

Voltaire 108

Werkbund 162

Winterbotham, William 112

Wollstonecraft, Mary 112

Woolf, Virginia 134, 139, 172, 175

Wordsworth, William 23, 112

workers

“dream” 17, 21

and the philosopher 43–5, 59

“voice” 8, 11, 18, 20

Wrong 10, 52, 75–8, 81, 100

Zola, Emile 126, 145