Friday, March 09, 2007
Ranciere's on Plato's theatrocracy
New Left Review - Peter Hallward: Staging Equality: "Such confusion
inspired the multitude with contempt of musical law, and a conceit of their own competence as judges. Thus our once silent audiences have found a voice, in the persuasion that they understand what is good and bad in art; the old ‘sovereignty of the best’ in that sphere has given way to an evil ‘sovereignty of the audience’, a theatrocracy (theatrokratia)."
inspired the multitude with contempt of musical law, and a conceit of their own competence as judges. Thus our once silent audiences have found a voice, in the persuasion that they understand what is good and bad in art; the old ‘sovereignty of the best’ in that sphere has given way to an evil ‘sovereignty of the audience’, a theatrocracy (theatrokratia)."
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