Monday, October 05, 2009

Jacques Ranciere: Consensus

"This shift has a name. Its name is consensus. Consensus does not simply mean the agreement of the political parties or of social partners on the common interests of the community. It means a reconfiguration of the visibility of the common. It means that the givens of any collective situation are objectified in such a way that they can no longer lend themselves to a dispute, to the polemical framing of a controversial world within the given world.”

Jacques Ranciere—“Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics” (2009)

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