Politics of Bodies

Laura Quintana is associate professor of philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

• IntroductionRethinking the Emancipation of Bodies Today Part I. Mapping the Practices of Emancipation 1. A Cartography of Possibilities 2. Intellectual Emancipation and Political Subjectivization /Dissensus and Disagreement. Part II.Intellectual Emancipation as the Torsion of a Body 1. Torsions of Bodies2. Torsion as Conversion of a Body3. EffectsPart III. Consensualism and the Dispossession of Bodies 1. Neoliberalism, Dispossession, and Depoliticization 2. Consensual LogicReinventions of the CommonPart IV. Disagreement and the Division of the Social Body in Today's World 1. Once Again, A Question of Method2. Disagreement 3. Against the Grain of Consensus: The Demand for “buen vivir” (good living) Part V. Institutions of Disagreement, Institutions of the Common?1. An Unfeasible Anti-institutionalism?2. Excessive Democracy and Autonomy of Emancipation Practices 3. Emancipatory Institutions?4. Institutions of the Common?5. Institution, Conflict, ViolencesPart VI. Image, Times, Bodies1. Excessive Reportage2. Aesthetic Logic and Its Reinventions of Bodies 3. Another Image of Time: Heterochronic BodiesEpilogue: Politics, Bodies, Affects BibliographyIndex

An important contribution to the contemporary debate on the relation between power and embodiment. Laura Quintana offers the best treatment of the emancipatory use of bodies in Ranciere’s political thinking.