Comments on: Book Review: Ranciere’s Politics of Aesthetics http://www.continental-philosophy.org/2007/06/06/book-review-rancieres-politics-of-aesthetics/ A Bulletin Board for Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy and More… Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:11:13 -0500 hourly 1 By: Landscape Agency http://www.continental-philosophy.org/2007/06/06/book-review-rancieres-politics-of-aesthetics/comment-page-1/#comment-34294 Landscape Agency Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:59:44 +0000 http://www.continental-philosophy.org/2007/06/06/book-review-rancieres-politics-of-aesthetics/#comment-34294 Read your critique of the Politics of Aesthetics and must say that Truth will never be found outside the Art object or the Subject ... It is an internal Real, versus anything heterogeneous and rizomatic or originary ... I suppose this is Rancière's point, though I think you say/write he never quite gets there ... The de-centering of the subject (and its various iterations, manifestations today in theory and praxis) is a huge red herring ... Words matter because they are the most prescient form of image ... Writing is therefore Truth (when it says the unsayable) ... "What cannot be said must not be silenced [...]" J-L Marion ... GK ... So, J-L Nancy has a new book forthcoming from Fordham on deconstructing Christianity (entitled Dis-Enclosure) ... 'Here' is an Event after Truth ... Not that Truth is to be found merely in Theology ... But one reason theology is the hot subject right now is because it goes where metaphysics could/can not go (i.e., 'inside/upstream', or, through the wall/looking glass to the Imaginary Itself) ... - Landscape Agency http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/ /S/O(MA) - /S/yntactical Operations (Metaphorical Affects) GK / LANY - GK / Landscape Agency New York / Etcetera Read your critique of the Politics of Aesthetics and must say that Truth will never be found outside the Art object or the Subject … It is an internal Real, versus anything heterogeneous and rizomatic or originary … I suppose this is
Rancière’s point, though I think you say/write he
never quite gets there … The de-centering of the
subject (and its various iterations, manifestations
today in theory and praxis) is a huge red herring … Words matter because they are the most prescient form of image … Writing is therefore Truth (when it says the unsayable) … “What cannot be said must not be silenced [...]” J-L Marion … GK … So, J-L Nancy has a new book forthcoming from Fordham on deconstructing Christianity (entitled Dis-Enclosure)
… ‘Here’ is an Event after Truth … Not that Truth
is to be found merely in Theology … But one reason theology is the hot subject right now is because it goes where metaphysics could/can not go (i.e., ‘inside/upstream’, or, through the wall/looking glass to the Imaginary Itself) …

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