"Freedom is a political virtue so long as it is something other than a way of living, so long as it is a polemical stake. It is only a virtue when a community is animated by the very conflict over what it means, and when several freedoms clash in their attempt to embody it, for instance when freedom of thought and of association clash with entrepreneurial freedom [situated in reciprocal constrain and each infringes upon the other] ... There are two major ways of symbolizing community: one represents it as the sum of its parts, the other defines it as the division of its whole. One conceives it as the accomplishment of a common way of being, the other as a polemic over the common. I call the first police, the second politics. Consensus is the form by which politics is transformed into the police. " Ranciere
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:33:52 +0000
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