Leçons de clochardise. Lectures d’Agonie et d’Il n’y a plus de chemin de Jacques Brault

« Agonie » et « Il n’y a plus de chemin » de Jacques Brault mettent en scène des clochards qui ont choisi de quitter la vie sociale, qui « vivent en partie ailleurs », qui ne « sont plus tout à fait dedans », pour reprendre les mots de l’auteur. Préférant le détournement, le silence et le retrait aux discours engagés, ils mettent au jour les insuffisances d’une transmission culturelle qui, loin de reposer sur des certitudes, se révèle profondément aporétique à l’époque contemporaine. Quels héritages ces deux textes livrent-ils, sinon le détachement, le décalage, la distance et l’anachronisme qui, de toute façon, ne s’enseignent ni ne s’apprennent ? Quelle conception du vivre-ensemble contemporain élaborent-ils ? Afin de répondre à ces questions, le présent article s’attache à examiner les figures de l’anachronisme qui donnent lieu à une conception singulière de la transmission des savoirs et des affects, laquelle est partagée entre legs impossible et parole déliquescente.

(en chemin) Pénélope suivi de : paysages de l'absence : apparition et disparition chez Jean-Aubert Loranger, Fernand Leduc et Jacques Brault

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On medium specificity and discipline crossovers in modern art : An interview with Jacques Ranciére on Medium-Specificity and Discipline Crossovers in Modern Art

Jacques Ranciere's work on aesthetics has received a great deal of attention recently. Given his work has enormous range – taking in art and literature, political theory, historiography, pedagogy and worker's history – Andrew McNamara and Toni Ross (UNSW) seek to explore his wider project in this interview, while showing how it leads to his alternative insights into aesthetics. Rancière sets aside the core suppositions linking the medium to aesthetic judgment, which has informed many definitions of modernism. Rancière is emphatic in freeing aesthetic judgment from issues of medium-specificity. He argues that the idea of autonomy associated with medium-specificity – or 'truth to the medium' – was 'a very late one' in modernism, and that post-medium trends were already evident in early modernism. While not stressing a simple continuity between early modernism and contemporary art, Ranciere nonetheless emphasizes the ethical and political ramifications of maintaining an a-disciplinary stance.

An interview with Jacques Rancière : on medium-specificity and discipline crossovers in modern art

Jacques Rancière's work on aesthetics has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Given his work has enormous range – covering art and literature, political theory, historiography, pedagogy and worker's history – Andrew McNamara and Toni Ross (UNSW) explore his wider critical ambitions in this interview, while showing how it leads to alternative insights into aesthetics. Rancière sets aside the core suppositions linking the medium to aesthetic judgment, which has informed many definitions of modernism. Rancière is emphatic in freeing aesthetic judgment from issues of medium-specificity. He argues that the idea of autonomy associated with medium-specificity – or 'truth to the medium' – was 'a very late one' in modernism, and that post-medium trends were already evident in early modernism. While not stressing a simple continuity between early modernism and contemporary art, Ranciere nonetheless emphasizes the on-going ethical and political ramifications of maintaining an a-disciplinary stance.

Activism, art and social practice : a case study using Jacques Ranciere’s framework for analysis

The question can no longer just be whether “art and social practice” or creative forms of activism are part of larger neo liberal agenda nor if they are potentially radical in their conception, delivery or consumption. The question also becomes: what are the effects of social practice art and design for the artists, institutions, and the publics they elicit in public and private spaces; that is, how can we consider such artworks differently? I argue the dilution of social practices’ potentially radical interventions into cultural processes and their absorption into larger neo liberal agendas limits how, as Jacques Rancière might argue, they can intervene in the “distribution of the sensible.” I will use a case study example from The Center for Tactical Magic, an artist group from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Portrait of Jacques Offenbach Portraits Men

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1838-1839 documents relating to Jacques Judah Lyons and his service to K.K. Beth Shalome, Richmond, Virginia

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Letter of recommendation for Jacques Judah Lyons from Isaac Leeser

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Certificate of Jacques Judah Lyons discharge as hazan in Surinam

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Application of Jacques Judah Lyons to K. K .S. I. for hazan

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Resolution appointing Jacques Judah Lyons Superintendent of Polonies Talmud Torah School

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Recommendation of Jacques Judah Lyons from Surinam

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Resolution of trustees regarding marriage of Jacques Judah Lyons

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