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Jacques Ranciere's understanding of politics centers on the struggles of disenfranchised or marginalized groups who demonstrate their equality and become political subjects by exercising the very capacities they supposedly lack and by enacting the rights they are not entitled to claim. Ranciere uses the term "political subjectivation" for such struggles. He associates this process with "dissensus," or a logical or argumentative confrontation over whose speech counts in a political community, and he differentiates it from a violent rebellion centered on military confrontation. Additionally, he emphasizes that this process always entails disidentification, or breaking with one's assigned identity, place, or role in an inegalitarian order. This article revises Ranciere's account of political subjectivation by taking into account the social conditions that continuously shape, and at times frustrate, struggles for equality. It attends to these conditions by building on his under-theorized concept of "police" and examining two events that he commented on in different contexts: the armed revolt of the Scythian slaves and the violent insurrection in the French banlieues in 2005. These events highlight the need to rethink political subjectivation in all its uncertainty, as they bring to view ambiguous figures and actions that unsettle the distinctions Ranciere draws between logical demonstration and military confrontation as well as between disidentification and identification.
- 出版日期2017-4
