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Poetics of Being

Jacques Rancière: "To affirm the nature of the 'poetic' in politics means to assert first and foremost that politics is an activity of reconfiguration of that which is given in the sensible." ("Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière", 2000)


Aidyn Mills: I agree, Jacques, that the privilege is in the capacity to reconfigure and rearrange: forms, words, homes, jobs, relationships. Can we take it a step further? Beyond a poetics of politics, and beyond a poetics of knowledge, which you have so rightly identified. Perhaps poetics need not be a privilege, but rather, an equalizing force, always accessible to all, through presence. When forms dissolve, and merge with other forms.


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