Dissenting Words is a lively and engaging collection of interviews that span the length of Jacques Rancière’s trajectory, from the critique of Althusserian Marxism and the work on proletarian thinking in the nineteenth century to the more recent reflections on politics and aesthetics. Across these pages, Rancière discusses the figures, concepts and arguments he has introduced to the theoretical landscape over the past forty years, the themes and concerns that have animated his thinking, the positions he has defended and the wide range of objects and discourses that have attracted his attention and through which his thought has unfolded: history, pedagogy, literature, art, cinema. But more than reflecting on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought, Rancière recasts his work in a different discursive register. And the pleasure we experience in reading these interviews – with their asides, displacements and reconstructions – stems from the way Rancière transforms the voice of the thinker commenting on his texts and elucidating his concepts into another, and equally rich, manifestation of his thought. Core sections of this edition are translated from the french publication Et tant pis pour le gens fatigués, by Jacques Rancière, © Editions Amsterdam 2009, published by arrangement Agence litteraire Pierre Astier & Associés

Table of Contents:
Editor’s Preface, Emiliano Battista 1. The Fraternal Image With Serge Daney and Serge Toubiana Cahiers du cinéma, 1976 2. Too Bad for You if You’re Tired! With Edmond El Maleh Le Monde, 1981 3. The Visit to the People With Serge Le Péron and Charles Tesson Cahiers du cinéma, 1985 4. Politics of Writing With Mônica Castro Netto Philosophie, philosophie 1993 5. The Names of History, a History of Names With Martyne Pierrot and Martin de la Soudière Communications, 1994 6. The Ignorant Schoolmaster With Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Isabelle Saint-Saëns Vacarme, 1999 7. Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière With Davide Panagia Diacritics, 2000 8. Politics Is Not Coextensive with Life or the State With Nicolas Poirier Le Philosophoire, 2001 9. Politics and Aesthetics: An Interview With Peter Hallward Angelaki, 2003 10. Community as Dissensus With François Noudelmann Rue Descartes, 2003 11. Identifications of the People With Diane Arnaud and Stéphane Bou Simulacres, 2003 (issued never published) 12. The Actuality of The Ignorant Schoolmaster With Andrea Benvenuto, Laurence Cornu and Patrice Vermeren Le Télémache, 2005 13. Losing Too Is Still Ours: An Interview about the Thwarted Politics of Literature With Martin Jalbert Cahiers littéraires Contre-jour, 2005 14. The Indecisive Affect With Patrice Blouin, Élie During and Dork Zabunyan Critique, 2005 15. The New Anti-Democratic Discourse With Amador Fernández-Savater Archipélago, 2006 16. Art of the Possible: With Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey Artforum, 2007 17. Another Type of Universality With Markus Klammer, Stéphane Montavon, Stefan Neuer and Mladen Gladic Revue 31 – Das Magazin des Intituts für Theorie, 2007 18. Critique of the Critique of the ‘Spectacle’ With Jérôme Game RiLi – La Revue international des livres et des idées, 2009 19. Constructing the Spaces of Politics With members of the Mouvement des Chômeurs et Précaires en Lutte de Rennes Le Sabot, outil de liason locale sur Rennes et ses environs, 2009 20. It’s Up to You to Invent the Rest With Stéphane Delorme and Dork Zabunyan Cahiers du cinéma, 2015 21. Back to Althusser With Emiliano Battista, 2015 Works cited: Jacques Rancière Index