Proletarian Nights

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 598 pages
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Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781689608

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Proletarian Nights by Jacques Rancière Pdf

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancire's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but against the unyielding predetermination of their lives. Through a study of worker-run newspapers, letters, journals, and worker-poetry, Rancire reveals the contradictory and conflicting stories that challenge the coherence of these statements celebrating labor. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author, revisiting the work twenty years since its first publication in France.

Author : Jacques Ranciere
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844678495

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Proletarian Nights by Jacques Ranciere Pdf

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière’s most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but against the unyielding predetermination of their lives. Through a study of worker-run newspapers, letters, journals, and worker-poetry, Rancière reveals the contradictory and conflicting stories that challenge the coherence of these statements celebrating labor. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author, revisiting the work twenty years since its first publication in France.

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0877226253

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The Nights of Labor by Jacques Rancière Pdf

Originally published in France in 1981, this first English translation ofLes Nuits des Proleacute;tairesdramatically reinterprets the Revolution of 1830, contending that workers were not rebelling against specific hardships and conditions but against the unyielding predetermination of their lives. Through a study of worker-run newspapers, letters, journals, and worker-poetry, Ranciegrave;re reveals the contradictory and conflicting stories that challenge the coherence of these statements celebrating labor. Nineteenth-century workers sought out proletarian intellectuals, poets, and artists who were able to articulate their longings. At night, these worker-intellectuals gathered to write journals, poems, music, letters, and to discuss issues. The worker diatribes they composed served the purpose of escape from their daily worker lives. Unwilling to give in to sleep at night to repair the body for more manual labor, these "migrants who moved at the borders between classes" regarded the night as their real life. They sought to appropriate for themselves the night of those who could stay awake and the language of those who did not have to beg. Once these workers and those whom they represented had glimpsed other lives, they fought for the possibility of living other lives. Thus, Ranciegrave;re disregards "the majestic masses" and concentrates instead on the words and fantasies of a few dozen "nonrepresentative" individuals-those who performed the radical act of breaking down the time-honored barrier separating those who carried out useful labor from those who pondered aesthetics.The Nights of Laborincorporates the post-structuralist insistence on the production of meaning as a dynamic, conflictual process. Ranciegrave;re's method shares a common strategy with the deconstructionist technique of locating points in the text that reveal contradictions engendered by the suppression of "writing." In choosing to deconstruct the proletariat, Ranciegrave;re exposes its conflicts and strategies of containment. Author note: Jacques Ranciegrave;re, known as an early disciple of Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, teaches philosophy at the Universite de Paris VIII. He co-authoredLire le Capitaland founded the journal,Les Revoltes Logiques.

Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110550863

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The Proletarian Dream by Sabine Hake Pdf

The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also inspired the fantasies, desires, and attachments necessary for transforming the working class into a historical subject and an emotional community. This book reconstructs this complicated and contradictory process through the countless treatises, essays, memoirs, novels, poems, songs, plays, paintings, photographs, and films produced in the name of the proletariat. The Proletarian Dream reads these forgotten archives as part of an elusive collective imaginary that modeled what it meant—and even more important, how it felt—to claim the name "proletarian" with pride, hope, and conviction. By emphasizing the formative role of the aesthetic, the eighteen case studies offer a new perspective on working-class culture as a oppositional culture. Such a new perspective is bound to shed new light on the politics of emotion during the main years of working-class mobilizations and as part of more recent populist movements and cultures of resentment. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures 2018

Author : Joseph Antony Kalar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252072000

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Papermill by Joseph Antony Kalar Pdf

The gritty landscape and language of the working man from a great forgotten writer

Author : Jacques Ranciere
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788736527

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Staging the People by Jacques Ranciere Pdf

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of “heretical” knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure. For the short-lived journal Les Révoltes Logiques, Rancière wrote on subjects ranging across a hundred years, from the California Gold Rush to trade-union collaboration with fascism, from early feminism to the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” from the respectability of the Paris Exposition to the disrespectable carousing outside the Paris gates. Rancière characteristically combines telling historical detail with deep insight into the development of the popular mind. In a new preface, he explains why such “rude words” as “people,” “factory,” “proletarians” and “revolution” still need to be spoken.

Author : Jonathan Fardy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350358935

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Ideology and Interpellation by Jonathan Fardy Pdf

Ideology and Interpellation examines the relation between ideology, the humanist subject, interpellation, and the role of theory. Placing the work of Althusser, Rancière, Baudrillard, and Laruelle into dialogue, this book offers a useful starting point for understanding the demands and possibilities for ideological critique after the deconstruction of the subject. With chapters devoted to each French theorist's critique, the book first examines the historical and political roots of Althusser's theory of ideology, then placing focus on Rancière's historiographic work in the following chapter. Coming hot on the heels of his blistering critique of his teacher, Althusser, in Althusser's Lesson, Rancière argues that reformers' failure to “interpellate” or recruit workers was due to their work-centric attitude and failure to understand the workers' dreams of lives devoted to unwaged aesthetic and philosophical labour. The fifth chapter shows how Baudrillard disrupts Althusser's fundamental belief that ideology can be unmasked to reveal true structures, by exposing how a society of simulation realizes the untrue by integrating it into the fabric of experience. Finally, Fardy explores how Laruelle calls into question Althusser's presumption that “standard philosophy” is sufficiently guarded against the lures of ideology. On the contrary, Laruelle suggests that this view is in fact that of the ideology of standard philosophy. Shedding light on the continuing relevance of post-Althusserian Marxist thought, Ideology and Interpellation further demonstrates the need today for a rigorous theory of ideology, traces of which can be found in Althusser's legacy.

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:1036808751

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The Nights of Labor by Jacques Rancière Pdf

Author : Mark Nowak
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781566895750

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Social Poetics by Mark Nowak Pdf

Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people’s history of the poetry workshop from the founding director of the Worker Writers School. Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means, but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces, from taxi drivers to street vendors, and other workers of the world.

Author : Ben Highmore
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415230241

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The Everyday Life Reader by Ben Highmore Pdf

Using primary materials, Highmor brings together a wide range of thinkers to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life.

Author : Mercedes Vicente
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783031369032

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Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice by Mercedes Vicente Pdf

The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers. This book follows Lange's trajectory from his early observational studies to the crisis of representation and socially engaged video and activism, as it is shaped by, and resists, the artistic, cultural and political preoccupations of the 1970s and 1980s. It strikes a balance between being a monographic account providing a close analysis of Lange's oeuvre and drawing from unpublished archival materials—a sort of catalogue raisonné—whilst maintaining a breadth with theoretical discourses around the themes of labour and class, education, and indigenous struggles central to his work. The book's frameworks of Conceptual Art, structuralist and ethnographic film theory, social documentary and the critique of representation, video as social practice and the notion of 'feedback', participatory socially engaged art and postcolonial and indigenous theory,—expand our understanding of video outside the predominant structuralist tendencies. Lange's transnational and nomadic career introduces notions of alterity and challenges nationalistic accounts that excluded him in the past.

Author : Laura Quintana
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538143582

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The Politics of Bodies by Laura Quintana Pdf

Is it due to lack of critical agency that precarious persons opt, time and again, for political views that contribute to their marginalization? How should we understand that alleged loss of critical agency and how could it be countered? Influential perspectives in critical theory have answered these questions by highlighting how certain ideological mechanisms, incorporated thoughtlessly by the most vulnerable bodies, function to obscure their interests and the causes of the condition they find themselves in. Through an original interpretation of Jacques Rancière’s thought, but also going beyond it, The Politics of Bodies establishes a different horizon of reflection. Laura Quintana’s main hypothesis is that the lack of critical agency today has more to do with a loss of the desire for transformation, fostered by neoliberal consensual dynamics, than with techniques of deceit and manipulation. In developing her interpretation of Rancière’s thought, Quintana provides an analysis of certain aesthetic-political and socioeconomic conditions of the historical present, anchored mainly in Latin America. Thus, she addresses the corporeal transformations produced by emancipatory practices, the ways in which they affect configurations of power, and the manner in which they can be disseminated in and, in turn, alter the political landscape.

Author : Joseph Stalin
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Socialism
ISBN : 9783989884090

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The Proletarian Class and the Proletarian Party by Joseph Stalin Pdf

A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works. In his 1905 work "The Proletarian Class and the Proletarian Part (Класс пролетариев и партия пролетариев), Stalin draws a distinction between the broad working class and the vanguard communist party. The work illustrates his belief in the necessity of an elite party structure to guide the proletariat, a notion central to later Bolshevik strategies.

Author : Patrick Eiden-Offe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004685536

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The Poetry of Class by Patrick Eiden-Offe Pdf

In the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Vörmarz Germany (1815–1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Büchner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.

Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231547246

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Philosophy and Poetry by Ranjan Ghosh Pdf

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry. In wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva, and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of philosophy.