On rethoric of the visible to distribution of the sensible: the policy of the esthetic in J. Rancière

Abstract

The present paper aims to investigate the critique of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière to a traditional way of looking the relationship between politics and art appropriated for a specific current of social criticism that examines political vocation of artistic creation as simple privileged means of showing the real domination behind the numerous other images released to us. Against this perspective, Rancière proposes to reconsider the logic that is involved in the common distribution of the sensible, the audible and speakable while real political vocation of art, since he believes that political action is precisely the one that changes the places and the calculation of bodies organized by police device.

Keywords

• ação política
• criação artística
• emancipação
• sensibilidade comum
• profanação