Session Information
20 SES 09 B, Learning in Public Spaces: Reconnecting Democracy and Education
Symposium
Contribution
The philosopher Jacques Rancière has argued that the social is to be understood as always already organised, administered, and unequally constructed in what he refers to as a ’police order.’ This order can be better or worse but can never in itself be an expression of equality. He sees equality as a particular quality of the relationship between those who have discovered that equality needs no grounding. For Rancière equality is an assumption that we must start from; not to be grounded in any other way than by living it. For Rancière such equality without ground is a product of the language we live; equality is expressed in the poetic condition of all spoken language. If this is so, then the poetic life of equal human beings will be in direct conflict with any police order, better or worse. At the same time it is only through such conflict that order can be anything else than itself. It is only through conflict, therefore, that the order, for a moment, can creatively be changed. In this paper I explore the possibility of expressing the poetics of teaching as a truly liberating act in the social context of a classroom.
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