Jacques Rancière in London

Professor Jacques Rancière – Modernity Revisited

Working against simplistic visions of the historical break and the conquest of autonomy which underpin the modernist doxa, the aim is to bring out once again the multiplicity of interweavings that have made up what is called artistic modernity: articulations of heterogeneous temporalities, the diagonals traced between artistic practices separated by their own particular primary material, the constant borrowings by the noble arts from the popular arts, the crossings and tensions between the forms of art and those of everyday experience, and between its paradigms and the modes of interpretation of the common world and of the causality of collective action.

This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/03/jacques-ranciere-modernity-revisited/