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UNCERTAIN TIMES - JACQUES RANCIERE KARTONIERT (TB)

The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago  promising an age of consensus
in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at
peace. Today  these grand hopes have been destroyed  and the era touted as new and exceptional
has turned out to be remarkably similar to the old order - but not simply due to the aggression
of external forces. Instead  we must look to the nature of consensus itself  which  in the view
of leading radical philosopher Jacques Rancière  is revealed as a violent  absolutized
capitalist machine whose output is ever more inequality  exclusion and hate. This book delivers
a frank and piercing assessment of the globalised capitalist consensus. The invasion of Iraq 
the riots on Capitol Hill and the rise of the European far right all provide evidence of the
consummation of consensual realism  as does the current state-sanctioned racism which exploits
the disenchanted progressive tradition and is led by an intelligentsia that claims to be
left-wing. At the same time  Rancière also praises the dynamism of social movements which
affirm the power of the assembly of equals and its capacity for worldmaking: autonomous protest
collectives have proven themselves capable of opening breaches in the consensual order and
challenging the post-1989 system of domination.

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