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Modern Times

Temporality in Art and Politics

Innbundet
Engelsk
Modern Times
Modern Times
  • Forfatter: Jacques Ranciere
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 144
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781839763199
  • Utgivelsesår: 2022
  • Bidragsyter: Ranciere, Jacques
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The critique of modernist ideology from France''s leading radical theorist

In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions, showing how this plurality itself refers to the double dimension of time.
 
Time is more than a line drawn from the past to the future. It is a form of life, marked by the ancient hierarchy between those who have time and those who do not. This hierarchy, continued in the Marxist notion of the vanguard and nakedly exhibited in Clement Greenberg’s modernism, still governs a present which clings to the fable of historical necessity and its experts. In opposition to this, Rancière shows how the break with the hierarchical conception of time, formulated by Emerson in his vision of the new poet, implies a completely differ