The Politics of Attention ... or how to come off stage with Rancière

Abstract

This article discusses the limits of the exceptionality of the political, as the philosophical argument that has been at the center of the various currents of thought that have developed the revolutionary heritage in the second half of the XXth century. Among them, is the thought of Jacques Rancière as peculiar reinterpretation of the emancipatory tradition. The horizon of the analysis in this article points to the need to deploy a political perspective capable of renewing the commitment to a common world and its collective transformation. To this end, this article questions how can we redirect political attention from the centrality of processes of subjection to its enrollment, material and concrete, in the life of humanity embodied in their own limits.