The Future of the Image by Jacques Rancière (Hardcover First Edition)

Published by Verso, 2007
Sewn bound hardcover
First printing
147 pages
8x5.5 inches

First edition. Book and dust jacket in Near Fine condition. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

“Like all of Jacques Rancière’s texts, The Future of the Image is vertiginously precise.”—Cahiers du Cinema

“Ranciere’s writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist.”—Slavoj Žižek

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière shows that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.