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)."
New Left Review - Peter Hallward: Staging Equality
New Left Review - Peter Hallward: Staging Equality: "The essence of equality is not so much to unify as to declassify, to undo the supposed naturalness of orders and replace it with controversial figures of division. Equality is the power of inconsistent, disintegrative and ever-replayed division"
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