Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics

Editor's Introduction Part I: The Aesthetics of Politics 1. Ten Theses on Politics 2. Does Democracy Mean Something? 3. Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man? 4. From the Actuality of Communism to its Inactuality 5. The People or the Multitudes: Interview with Eric Alliez 6. Biopolitics or Politics?: Interview with Eric Alliez 7. 9/11 and Afterwards: A Rupture in the Symbolic Order 8. Of War as the Supreme Form of Advanced Plutocratic Consensus Part II: The Politics of Aesthetics 9. The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcomes: Emplotments of Autonomy and Heteronomy 10. The Politics of Art 11. The Politics of Literature 12. The Secrets of the Monument (Deleuze and Art's 'Resistance') 13. The Emancipated Spectator 14. The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics Part III: Response to Critics 15. The Usage of Distinctions Author's Afterword Index.