Politics of Bodies

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

Laura Quintana is Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

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