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ABC of the War (Brecht),
84
accent pointu (northern accent),
36
adjective pairs, system of,
36Alexanderplatz (Döblin),
83
Althusser’s Lesson (Rancière),
11
anthropological effectiveness of relics,
72anti-austerity demonstrations (Europe),
124
Badiou, Alain,
11,
14,
21–31,
80,
108,
109,
111,
112,
113,
118,
119,
123Bailly, Jean-Christophe,
83Battleship Potemkin (film),
80
Being and Time (Heidegger),
16,
17
Benjamin, Walter,
69,
70,
71,
72,
73,
76,
78,
80,
82,
83,
84,
115,
117Black Notebooks (Heidegger),
18
bodily acts, linguistic speech as linked to,
57body/bodies: as activated by history and as acting upon it,
77; as affectively in the world,
77–78; mobility as right of,
63; as more than active agents of resistance,
62–63; plurality of,
59–60,
61; reasons for assembly of,
63; as set of relations,
61; techniques of,
81; as vulnerable,
64Boiffard, Jacques-André,
83Burckhardt, Jacob,
74,
77Butler, Judith,
3,
14,
49–64,
108,
112–17,
119,
121–22,
123,
130
Carnets d’enquêtes (Zola),
78
Castoriadis, Cornelius,
118Certeau, Michel de,
74,
117classes: dominant classes,
72,
89; middle class,
29,
30,
109; popular classes,
33–35; subordinate classes,
89,
95,
97; working classes,
33–35,
44,
95,
100collective cultural rights,
99collective political action,
112,
113collectivity: action as helping to constitute intersubjective, normative basis of reality in,
130; creation of as having normative character,
127; forms of,
107; fragile, fleeting nature of the people as,
122; notions of,
118; as passive or active,
112; as political agent,
111–12; subnational collectivities,
124; symbolic elements in formation of,
119; unsettlement and controversy over composition of,
126colonialism: history of,
126; unworking of,
124communist politics,
31,
109Confessions (Rousseau),
11
confused representations, network of as engendered by social subjects,
35conscious intervention,
36constructive principle (
konstructiv Prinzip),
73,
74contingent hegemonic articulation,
14contract, Rousseau’s notion of,
8contractual exchange, Rousseau’s formula of,
6,
7,
8Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (Heidegger),
17,
18
cultural legitimacy, principles of,
43
declaration of powerlessness,
85,
86“Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (Marx),
9deviances, history of,
74dialectical/dialectic,
69–74,
79,
80,
82,
83; emotions,
86; idea,
84; images,
69,
70,
71,
84,
86,
117; of the symptom,
85Didi-Huberman, Georges,
15,
16,
65–86,
108,
117–19,
120,
121,
122,
123,
131Disagreement: Philosophy and Politics (Rancière),
11–12
Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau),
10
dispositions, hierarchy of,
41Dissertation sur la nature du peuple (Coyer),
110
Documentaires (Cendrars),
83
dualistic mode of thought,
39
Effusion et tourment (Farge),
76–77
Eisenstein, Sergei,
72,
80equality, embodiment of in practices of assembly,
59Éwanjé-Épée, Félix Boggio,
96expression, scholastic norms of,
42extra-parliamentary power,
51
faubourien (Paris working-class accent),
36
First Contact (documentary),
66
For Marx (Althusser),
10,
11,
13
France, masking of racial hierarchies in,
92freedom of association,
50French, how to be French without being French,
97–100French people,
22,
23,
24,
26,
87,
92,
93,
94,
97,
109,
126
generation, effect of,
41group distinction, mechanisms of,
110
Heidegger, Art, and Politics (Lacoue-Labarthe),
18
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests,
124
International Labor Organization,
50
Jew as Pariah,
The (Arendt),
74
Kodak (
documentaire) (Cendrars),
83
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe,
16,
18,
19La Nouvelle Héloise (Rousseau),
11
La Nuit des prolétaires (Rancière),
78
La Parole ouvrière (Faure and Rancière),
78
legibility: crystals of (
Lesbarkeit),
69; of history,
84,
86; power of,
84Le Paysan de Paris (Aragon),
83
Le Peuple introuvable (Rosanvallon),
66
Le scandale du corps parlant,
57
Les Révoltes Logiques (journal),
12,
121
Les Scènes du peuple (Rancière),
13–14
linguistic counter-legitimacy,
42
Magliani-Belkacem, Stella,
96marginalized peoples,
112,
118marseillais (Marseilles accent),
36
Marx, Karl,
5,
9,
11,
14,
23,
27,
76,
78,
79,
111masses,
2,
28,
29,
68,
69,
103,
105,
107,
121,
123,
124material dispossession,
112Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,
78,
79,
82methodical observation, program of,
44Mon Paris (Ehrenburg),
83
national adjective + people,
23,
26,
109national sovereignty,
89,
94,
95Nietzsche, Friedrich,
68,
77nonconventional French dictionaries,
33,
35nonconventional language,
33nonexistent state,
30,
109
Of Grammatology (Derrida),
10
On Populist Reason (Laclau),
4
“On the Jewish Question” (Marx),
9opposition: dominant oppositions,
37; between masculine and feminine,
138n10,
140n21oppressed (Tradition der Unterdrückten)
parliamentary forms of power,
51Partage du sensible (Rancière),
80
Parti socialiste (PS),
93Passagenwerk (Benjamin),
70,
78
people: abstract humanist notion of,
90; acting like a people,
130; against whom are they constituted,
88–90; as category constituted on basis of exclusion,
2; as category of the right of state,
24; claiming to be part of,
87; complex, discursivematerial character of,
113; composition and fragility of,
108; as designating something singular,
26; as designating subject of a political process,
27; imaginary character of,
118; as imaginary entity,
121; as imagined collectivity that bears an imagined sovereignty,
131; material elements of,
88; meaning and significance of,
107; as more general normative category,
123; as name for political process that produces its own subject,
20; negative senses of term,
30; as neutral term,
21; no people as such,
120,
121; normative character of,
108; as not a progressive noun,
21; as not existing,
66,
102; as not to be found,
70; the people’s people,
28; as political category,
1,
3,
4,
13,
20,
31; as political collectivity with special normative status,
120; as political notion,
89; positive senses of term,
30–31; as privileged term for articulating sphere of modern politics,
2–3; racial dimension of notion of,
90; as rendered sensible,
80–86,
117,
118,
119,
120,
122,
131; as result of process of political becoming,
5; revalorization of category of,
15; social ontology of,
121; and socioeconomic order,
90; as standing for new forms of decentralized, democratized epistemology,
125; strategic dimension of,
89; as taking on normative value,
129; talking about in the plural,
2; as term of art in ancien régime,
125; use of term when accompanied by an adjective,
22,
23–24; virtualization of in contemporary politics,
114.
See also specific groups of peoplepeoples, as having powers,
131permanent revolution,
115plural body/plural bodies,
60,
63plurality: of bodies,
59,
61; condition of,
58political action: background assumptions about,
123; collective political action,
112,
113; crux of,
14political becoming, process of,
5political depoliticization and exclusion,
111political effectiveness of relics,
72political sovereignty,
116Political Theology (Schmitt),
67
political theory, role/text of,
3,
4politics: communist politics,
31,
109; final aim of,
62; of power,
95; progressive politics,
30; of the street,
59,
113; survival as precondition of,
60; of the truth,
80popular,
4,
22,
25,
32–48,
109–10; art,
33,
35; classes,
33–35; language,
33,
34,
35,
36,
37,
38,
39,
44,
47; medicine,
35; realism,
40; religion,
33,
35; will,
50,
61popular sovereignty,
49,
50–52,
53,
54,
55,
89,
94,
95,
98,
99,
123power: extra-parliamentary power,
51; of legibility,
84; parliamentary forms of,
51; of the people,
12,
53,
66,
115,
123,
124,
125,
127,
129,
130; politics of,
95; tradition of,
73powerlessness, declaration of,
85,
86program of methodical observation,
44Proletarian Nights (Rancière),
12
protests/uprisings,
3,
124Puerta del Sol (Spain),
3,
59
race: concept of,
90–93; as principal way of not having a part in contemporary societies,
127radical left, national inflexion of,
93–97Rancière, Jacques,
11,
13,
14,
15,
78,
79,
80,
81,
82,
101–5,
118,
121Reading Capital (Althusser),
10,
11
representation: according to Schmitt,
67; forms of,
51,
119; of the people/the peoples,
65–69,
71,
78,
117; of powers,
71; question of,
66; and Rosanvallon’s emotion-people,
68; work of,
38resistance: bodies as capable of,
63; networks of,
62; to official norms,
40; reasons for,
62right of assembly (or association),
50rights of collective bargaining,
50Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
4–5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
14,
20,
24
Sarkozy, Nicolas,
99,
102scholastic norms of expression,
42self-constitution,
3,
51,
52,
54,
55,
63,
113,
114,
119,
122sensible: dialectic as encountering,
83; dialectic of the,
82; events of the,
81; points of contact with dialectical,
79,
80; rendering of,
80–86,
117,
118,
119,
120,
122,
131; truth of,
80; world of the,
65social classification,
111Social Contract,
The (Rousseau),
4,
5,
6,
7,
9,
10
solitudes, history of,
74sovereign performatives/sovereign performativity,
115,
116Soviets, formation of,
124speaking in unison,
52,
56speech act,
49,
52,
53,
54,
55,
56,
57,
58,
113,
115spontaneous sociolinguistics,
36,
137n8Staging the People (Rancière),
12,
15
standard language,
35,
39stylistic affectation,
43subjectivity: notion of,
115; and sovereignty,
116; will to,
20subnational collectivities,
124subordinate classes,
89,
95,
97surging multitudes,
61–62survival, as precondition of politics,
60system of adjective pairs,
36
theoretical framework (
theoretische Armatur),
73Tocqueville, Alexis de,
71totalitarian guidances,
67,
68tradition of the oppressed (
Tradition der Unterdrückten),
73,
74,
76truth of the sensible,
80“Twenty-Four Notes on the Uses of the Word ‘People’” (Badiou),
108
UMP (Union pour un mouvement populaire),
94upwelling of heterogeneity (
surgissement de l’
hétérogène),
118U.S. Declaration of Independence,
55
Verfassungslehre (Schmitt),
67
Vietnamese people,
22,
25
Westphalian strategy,
129Work Journals (Brecht),
84
“Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The” (Benjamin),
70work of representation,
38