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In <I>The Politics of Aesthetics</I>, Jacques Rancière has argued that we need to rethink aesthetics as “the invention of new forms of life” (25). Rejecting the idea that aesthetics should be confined to such questions as the status of the art object and the aestheticisation of politics, Rancière’s work opens up aesthetics to a reflection on the possibilities of sense and its distribution in terms of sensible forms and practices. Politics is itself aesthetic in that it requires a sharing of sense in common; art is not the exemplary site of sensory pleasure or the sublime but a critical break with common sense, opening up possibilities of new commonalities of sense. Art as politics is thus a manifestation of what Rancière calls dissensus, or a gap in the sensible itself. Rethinking the avant-garde as “the aesthetic anticipation of the future,” (29) Rancière calls for an aesthetics concerned with “the invention of sensible forms and material structures for a life to come” (29). This issue of <I>Transformations</I> contains a number of articles responding to Rancière’s ideas, and in particular his revisionist agenda which critiques many orthodox positions related to sense, aesthetics and political practice. <BR>
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Thinking the Unthinkable as a Form of <I>Dissensus</I>: The Case of the Witness <BR>
Anat Ascher<BR>
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The Spare Image in an Unsparing World: Framing the Soldier in an Indeterminate War <BR>
Sudeep Dasgupta<BR>
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Feminism After Rancière: Women in J.M. Coetzee and Jeff Wall <BR>
Arne De Boever<BR>
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The Distribution of the Nonsensical and the Political Aesthetics of Humour <BR>
Nicholas Holm<BR>
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“These.Are.The Breaks”: Rethinking Disagreement <I>Through Hip Hop</I> <BR>
Robin James<BR>
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Departures from postmodern doctrine in Jacques Rancière’s account of the politics of artistic modernity <BR>
Toni Ross<BR>
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Sublime Gender Transposition: The Reformed Platonism of Jacques Rancière’s Aesthetics as Queer Performance <BR>
Karin Sellberg<BR>
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General Editor Transformations <a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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