/ j o ey b loo d / joe y blo od

"One the one hand, political argumentation for Rancière belongs to a domain where the setting, dialogues, and even the cast of characters--who 'counts,' who is recognized as a legitimate participant in the discussion--are not given in advance. Both the terms of the argument and the scene where politics takes place must be produced, invented. We are here squarely in the realm of the aesthetic: the system of forms that governs what is seeable or sayable--the world, in other words, of perception. On the other hand, Rancière's thinking grants to art a kind of revitalized energy and potential for the new; art is given much the same power Rancière has granted elsewhere to politics: that of reframing, and thus expanding, what can be perceived in the present."

"The truths which intelligence grasps directly in the open light of day have something less profound, less necessary about them than those which life has communicated to us in spite of ourselves in an impression, a material impression because it has reached us through our senses."