The Politics of Bodies

With and beyond the political philosophy of Jacques Ranciè re, this book rethinks critical agency and its emancipatory effects today through an examination of the body.

Introduction

Rethinking the Emancipation of Bodies Today

Part I. Mapping the Practices of Emancipation
1. A Cartography of Possibilities
2. Intellectual Emancipation and Political Subjectivization /Dissensus and Disagreement.

Part II. Intellectual Emancipation as the Torsion of a Body
1. Torsions of Bodies
2. Torsion as Conversion of a Body
3. Effects

Part III. Consensualism and the Dispossession of Bodies
1. Neoliberalism, Dispossession, and Depoliticization
2. Consensual Logic

Reinventions of the Common

Part IV. Disagreement and the Division of the Social Body in Today's World
1. Once Again, A Question of Method
2. Disagreement
3. Against the Grain of Consensus: The Demand for "buen vivir" (good living)

Part V. Institutions of Disagreement, Institutions of the Common?
1. An Unfeasible Anti-institutionalism?
2. Excessive Democracy and Autonomy of Emancipation Practices
3. Emancipatory Institutions?
4. Institutions of the Common?
5. Institution, Conflict, Violences

Part VI. Image, Times, Bodies
1. Excessive Reportage
2. Aesthetic Logic and Its Reinventions of Bodies
3. Another Image of Time: Heterochronic Bodies

Epilogue: Politics, Bodies, Affects

Bibliography
Index