TY - BOOK AU - Ranciere, Jacques. AU - Corcoran, Steve. TI - Dissensus: on politics and aesthetics SN - 9781847064455 (hc) U1 - 320.01 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Aesthetics KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. I. The aesthetics of politics. Ten theses on politics -- Does de mocracy mean something? -- Who is the subject of the rights of man? -- Communism : from actuality to inactuality -- The people or the multitud es? -- Bio-politics or politics? -- September 11 and afterwards : a rup ture in the symbolic order? -- Of war as the supreme form of advanced p lutocratic consensus -- pt. II. The politics of aesthetics. The aesthet ic revolution and its outcomes -- The paradoxes of political art -- The politics of literature -- The monument and its confidences, or Deleuze and art's capacity of 'resistance' -- The ethical turn of aesthetics a nd politics -- pt. III. Response to critics. The use of distinctions ER -