The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Jacques Rancière on Democracy
For Rancière the demos refers neither to the whole body politic nor the poor. Instead, he argues - though an argument he picks up from Plato's Laws - that the demos refers to those who are unqualified to rule, to the "uncounted." As a result, he conceived of democracy as an eruption of "the part that has no part." Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (New York: Continuum, 2010), 70.
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