Anti-Machiavellian Rancière: Aesthetic Cartography, Sites of Incommensurability and Processes of Experimentation

I argue that Rancière’s philosophy is anti-Machiavellian in the sense that his distinction between police and politics is not an originary division, but rather a gap in the sensible fabric of society.He thus moves from politics as a theory of ORG RAW PECANS agency to an aesthetic cartography of situations.It is a question of mapping the emergence of a political problem within a Bedding singular situation, and the ethics of such mapping is the insistence on the irreducible contingency of an existential choice of the problem.I will elaborate some new concepts (“sites of incommensurability,” “experimentation,” “fragmentation of social space”) and specify how the three logics of identification, dis-identification, and over-identification are three ways of constructing and dealing with situated problems.