The master is not only he who knows precisely what remains unknown to the ignorant; he also knows how to make it knowable, at what time and what place, according to what protocol. These men, too, were intellectuals—as anybody is. The same thing that links them must also separate them. In order to replace ignorance with adequate knowledge, he must always keep a step ahead of the ignorant student who is losing his ignorance. Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. Strange as it may seem, the widespread use of images and of all kinds of media in theatrical performances hasn’t called the presupposition into question. I did not find the writing to be particularly relevant to our current epoch, which is the most important thing in a work for me at this point in history. ), IS BN -13: 978 1 84467 343 8C loth , U S $23.95 / £12.95 / C A N $30 Mat t R odda Jacque s Ra nc i reÕs recent publ ication, T he E m anc ipat ed Spe ctator , brings toge the r five texts The reformers of the theater restaged the Platonic opposition between choreia and theater as an opposition between the true living essence of the theater and the simulacrum of the “spectacle.” The theater then became the place where passive spectatorship had to be turned into its contrary—the living body of a community enacting its own principle. What those days brought our chroniclers was not knowledge and energy for future action. Plato drew an opposition between the poetic and democratic community of the theater and a “true” community: a choreographic community in which no one remains a motionless spectator, in which everyone moves according to a communitarian rhythm determined by mathematical proportion. It means standing before an appearance without knowing the conditions which produced that appearance or the reality that lies behind it. The Debordian critique of the spectacle still rests on the Feuerbachian thinking of representation as an alienation of the self: The human being tears its human essence away from itself by framing a celestial world to which the real human world is submitted. This is the point where the descriptions and propositions of intellectual emancipation enter into the picture and help us reframe it. The Ignorant Schoolmaster was a meditation on the eccentric theory and the strange destiny of Joseph Jacotot, a French professor who, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, unsettled the academic world by asserting that an ignorant person could teach another ignorant person what he did not know himself, proclaiming the equality of intelligences, and calling for intellectual emancipation against the received wisdom concerning the instruction of the lower classes. But it wasn’t the usual Sunday leisure of the worker seeking to restore his physical and mental forces for the following week of work. The spectator is then understood to act like the pupil or scholar (his previous book discusses this relationship and this forms the derivative of concepts in this volume) where he/she observes, selects, and compares this with what he/she has seen in other places, on "other stages". Workers’ emancipation was not about acquiring the knowledge of their condition. This is the first French language book I have finished in its entirety. We do need to acknowledge that every spectator is already an actor in his own story and that every actor is in turn the spectator of the same kind of story. Indeed, they are more than a little wary these days about using the stage as a way of teaching. …We cannot say in advance which meanings and effects media content will have on audiences" (Downing et al. “Good” theater is posited as a theater that deploys its separate reality only in order to suppress it, to turn the theatrical form into a form of life of the community. The crude idea of the inert masses was disposed of well before John Carey's 'The Intellectual and the Masses: : Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939' came out in. The student of the ignorant master learns what his master does not know, since his master commands him to look for something and to recount everything he discovers along the way while the master verifies that he is actually looking for it. This online book is made in simple word. The-Emancipated-Spectator … But in a theatre, in front of a performance, just as in a museum, school or street, there are only ever individuals plotting their own paths in the forest of things, acts and signs that confront or surround them. His … What had to be done was a work of translation, showing how empirical stories and philosophical discourses translate each other. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. Telling the (hi)story of those workers’ days and nights forced me to blur the boundary between the field of “empirical” history and the field of “pure” philosophy. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link by Verso. This is why you can change the values given to each position without changing the meaning of the oppositions themselves. I am speaking of a whole set of relations, resting on some key equivalences and some key oppositions: the equivalence of theater and community, of seeing and passivity, of externality and separation, of mediation and simulacrum; the opposition of collective and individual, image and living reality, activity and passivity, self-possession and alienation. The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. Jacques Rancière's on The Emancipated Spectator, 5th International Summer Academy, Frankfurt, 20 August 2004 (part 1/6) The Emancipated Spectator originated in former Althusserian French philosopher Rancière’s reflections upon the role of the spectator in contemporary art at the fifth Summer Academy of Arts held in Frankfurt in 2004. This capacity works through unpredictable and irreducible distances. The chronicle of their leisure entailed a reframing of the very relationship between doing, seeing, and saying. The book is the material thing, foreign to both master and student, through which they can verify what the student has seen, what he has reported about it, what he thinks of what he has reported. This is by far the most cogent and understandable of the essays in the collection, and it offers an interesting suggestion in rethinking the space between the actor and viewer, teacher and student, or any other relationship. Finally a passage from Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' Even when the dramaturge or the performer doesn’t know what he wants the spectator to do, he knows at least that the spectator has to do something: switch from passivity to activity. “…intelligence is always at work—an intelligence that translates signs into other signs and proceeds by comparison and illustration. In this academy’s statement of purpose we read that “theater remains the only place of direct confrontation of the audience with itself as a collective.” We can give that sentence a restrictive meaning that would merely contrast the collective audience of the theater with the individual visitors to an exhibition or the sheer collection of individuals watching a movie. If theater is held to be an equivalent of the true community, the living body of the community opposed to the illusion of mimesis, it comes as no surprise that the attempt at restoring theater to its true essence had as its theoretical backdrop the critique of the spectacle. Eleştirel söylemin bir arada tuttuğu "heterojen" öğeler, aslında mevcut yorum şemalarıyla birbirine bağlanmıştı. The spectator is usually disparaged because he does nothing, while the performers on the stage—or the workers outside—do something with their bodies. Indeed, the main source for the critique of the spectacle is, of course, Feuerbach’s critique of religion. This book is a set of five essays in response to Ranciere’s earlier work “The Ignorant Schoolmaster.” All of these pieces are tied together by Ranciere’s attempt to overcome the dyad so often associated with modernist aesthetics of passive spectator/active seer. But this power is resumed in the performance of the former, in the intelligence that builds it, in the energy that it conveys. I HAVE CALLED THIS TALK “The Emancipated Spectator.”* As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. This book gives the reader new knowledge and experience. Modern attempts to reform theatre have constantly oscillated between Ranciere tries to connect 3 different corners of the same spectrum: art, politics and the spectator; and he does that with such a brilliant way of writing, going through several references since Walker Evans till the portuguese director Pedro Costa. If the “ignorant” person who doesn’t know how to read knows only one thing by heart, be it a simple prayer, he can compare that knowledge with something of which he remains ignorant: the words of the same prayer written on paper. This is the first point that the reformers of the theater share with the stultifying pedagogues: the idea of the gap between two positions. It is the third that is owned by no one, but which subsists between them, excluding any uniform transmission, any identity of cause and effect” (15). It is the capacity of anonymous people, the capacity that makes everyone equal to everyone else. His reconsideration of this topic afforded him the opportunity to challenge some of the theoretical and political presuppositions that inform the criticism of the practices and strategies of … Images may take the place of living bodies in the performance, but as long as the spectators are gathered there the living and communitarian essence of the theater appears to be saved. Before that the idea of the myth of the audience as passive victims of the mass media was taken apart by many in Media and Communication studies. The Emancipated Spectator. The reform of theater thus meant the restoration of its authenticity as an assembly or a ceremony of the community. The most common conclusion runs as follows: Theater involves spectatorship, and spectatorship is a bad thing. Chapter 1 The Emancipated Spectator The first chapter is directed at 'theatre'. On the one hand pedagogy is set up as a process of objective transmission: one piece of knowledge after another piece, one word after another word, one rule or theorem after another. What is the essence of spectacle in Guy Debord’s theory? The true sense of the theater must be predicated on that acting power. She participates in the performance if she is able to tell her own story about the story that is in front of her. But that idea itself remains in line with the Platonic disparagement of the mimetic image. Art Studies in Social Science and Humanities, 78 New Paperbacks for Your Summer Reading List. The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In his speech on The Emancipated Spectator, the contemporary French philosopher Jacques Ranciére examines the ideas of the spectator and the theater (which can easily be extrapolated to visual art). Intelligence that constructs the performance for the spectator generates energy and thus reformulates a concept of theatre where the spectator becomes an active participant. But the “redistribution” of places is one thing; the demand that the theater achieve, as its essence, the gathering of an unseparate community is another thing. --Times Higher Education Dünyayı kavrayış sistemi ve bu sistemin teşvik edeceği varsayılan politik seferberlik biçimleri sanatı ayakta tutacak kadar güçlüyken, eleştirel sanatın amaçlarıyla gerçek etkileme biçimleri arasındaki mesafeyi görmezden gelmek mümkündü. Ranci{\`e}re and Gregory Ellion}, year={2009} } Jacques. And to understand. But it is easy to turn matters around by stating that those who act, those who work with their bodies, are obviously inferior to those who are able to look—that is, those who can contemplate ideas, foresee the future, or take a global view of our world. interpreting the emancipated spectator. He can do it if, at each step, he observes what is in front of him, tells what he has seen, and verifies what he has told. Associating and dissociating instead of being the privileged medium that conveys the knowledge or energy that makes people active—this could be the principle of an “emancipation of the spectator,” which means the emancipation of any of us as a spectator. Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. He can learn, sign after sign, the resemblance of that of which he is ignorant to that which he knows. The “action” of theater is nothing but the transmission of that disease through another disease, the disease of the empirical vision that looks at shadows. and the tremors that follow such a shock, as an earthquake can be followed by a tsunami. What counts, in fact, is only the statement of opposition between two categories: There is one population that cannot do what the other population does. Theater has to be brought back to its true essence, which is the contrary of what is usually known as theater. There were two ways of telling stories. Spectatorship is not a passivity that must be turned into activity. Welcome back. The reformers of the theater in fact retained the terms of Plato’s polemics, rearranging them by borrowing from Platonism an alternative notion of theater. Vision means externality. But there is also the distance inherent in the performance itself, inasmuch as it is a mediating “spectacle” that stands between the artist’s idea and the spectator’s feeling and interpretation. He proceeds from the same presupposition as the stultifying master: the presupposition of an equal, undistorted transmission. He criticizes them for not adequately treating what he calls the "aesthetic break", where there is no boundary between concepts realm of art and the realm of the real. They too were spectators and visitors, amid their own class. What has to be put to the test by our performances—whether teaching or acting, speaking, writing, making art, etc.—is not the capacity of aggregation of a collective but the capacity of the anonymous, the capacity that makes anybody equal to everybody. He draws on everything from photography and painting to literature, from the fine arts to the perorming arts. His lessons and exercises are aimed at continuously reducing the gap between knowledge and ignorance. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator. Either, according to the Brechtian paradigm, theatrical mediation makes the audience aware of the social situation on which theater itself rests, prompting the audience to act in consequence. Emancipated Spectator JACQUES RANCIÈRE I have called this talk "The Emancipated Spectator." Being a spectator means being passive. The text appears here in slightly revised form. That identity of cause and effect is the principle of stultification. Parhaan tietämäni jäsennyksen Rancièren estetiikka ja politiikka -hullunmyllylle on tehnyt Stewart Martin. This shared power of the equality of intelligence links individuals, makes them exchange their intellectual adventures, in so far as it keeps them separate from one another, equally capable of using the power everyone has to plot her own path. On the one hand he must change the way he looks for a better way of looking, on the other he must abandon the very position of the viewer. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. This paradigmatic shift is also opposed to three currents of thought on aesthetics, namely modernist, post-modern, and the sublimation of the aesthetic. Even now, in spite of the so-called postmodern skepticism about changing the way we live, one sees so many shows posing as religious mysteries that it might not seem so outrageous to hear, for a change, that words are only words. I did not find the writing to be particularly relevant to our current epoch, which is the most important thing in a work for me at this point in history. This is an academy that brings people involved in the worlds of art, theater, and performance together to consider the issue of spectatorship today. THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR 5 must be allowed some distance; for the other, he must forego any distance. * As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. An idea of the theater predicated on that idea of the spectacle conceives the externality of the stage as a kind of transitory state that has to be superseded. What lacks in literary accessibility spares on literary intelligence. Bu sistem apaçıklığını, bu biçimler de güçlerini yitirdiğinden beriyse artık bu mesafe apaçık ortada duruyor. Emancipation starts from the opposite principle, the principle of equality. *“The Emancipated Spectator” was originally presented, in English, at the opening of the Fifth International Summer Academy of Arts in Frankfurt on August 20, 2004. Theater is the transmission of the ignorance that makes people ill through the medium of ignorance that is optical illusion. La tarea consistirá. The master presupposes that what the student learns is precisely what he teaches him. And looking is a bad thing, for two reasons. This conclusion was drawn long ago by Plato: The theater is the place where ignorant people are invited to see suffering people. The spectator is active, just like the student or the scientist: He observes, he selects, he compares, he interprets. I had to produce a discourse that would be readable only for those who would make their own translation from the point of view of their own adventure. There is the idea of a “hybridization” of the means of art, which complements the view of our age as one of mass individualism expressed through the relentless exchange between roles and identities, reality and virtuality, life and mechanical prostheses, and so on. From this perspective there is no contradiction between the quest for a theater that can realize its true essence and the critique of the spectacle. It is the power each of them has to translate what she perceives in her own way, to link it to the unique intellectual adventure that makes her similar to all the rest in as much as this adventure is not like any other. Sage, 1995, p.219). The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. Nor was it the theoretical interpretation of those facts. Unfortunately, in order to reduce the gap, he must reinstate it ceaselessly. One day in May, during the 1970s, as I was looking through a worker’s correspondence from the 1830s to determine what the condition and consciousness of workers had been at that time, I discovered something quite different: the adventures of two visitors, also on a day in May, but some hundred and forty years before I stumbled upon their letters in the archives. What our performances — be they teaching or playing, speaking, writing, making art or looking at it — verify is not our participation in a power embodied in the community. I belong to a generation that was poised between two competing perspectives: According to the first, those who possessed the intelligence of the social system had to pass their learning on to those who suffered under that system, so that they would then take action to overthrow it. The Emancipated Spectator 作者 : Jacques Ranciere 出版社: Verso 译者 : Gregory Elliott 出版年: 2009-11-2 页数: 134 定价: USD 23.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781844673438 Jacques Rancière is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. Some parts were very interesting on the way we act as viewers and how art addresses ideas to us, but then the author lost me, I'm not a philosophy major. The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. The less the dramaturge knows what the spectators should do as a collective, the more he knows that they must become a collective, turn their mere agglomeration into the community that they virtually are. We learn and teach, we act and know, as spectators who link what they see with what they have seen and told, done and dreamed. There was no gap to bridge between intellectuals and workers, actors and spectators; no gap between two populations, two situations, or two ages. He knows the exact distance between ignorance and knowledge. Presents a broad array of research relating to image and engagement and forms a theory proposing that contemporary art needs to consider both body and image in presentation. The master alone knows the right way, time, and place for that “equal” transmission, because he knows something that the ignorant will never know, short of becoming a master himself, something that is more important than the knowledge conveyed. Eleştirel sanat icrası, uyuşmazlık düny, Dünyayı kavrayış sistemi ve bu sistemin teşvik edeceği varsayılan politik seferberlik biçimleri sanatı ayakta tutacak kadar güçlüyken, eleştirel sanatın amaçlarıyla gerçek etkileme biçimleri arasındaki mesafeyi görmezden gelmek mümkündü. This means that the paradigm of intellectual emancipation is clearly opposed to another idea of emancipation on which the reform of theater has often been grounded—the idea of emancipation as the reappropriation of a self that had been lost in a process of separation. Gören, görmeyi bilmez. As Ranciere says, “It is not the transmission of the artist’s knowledge or inspiration to the spectator. “…intelligence is always at work—an intelligence that translates signs into other signs and proceeds by comparison and illustrations in order to communicate its intellectual adventures and understand what another intelligence is endeavouring to communicate to it” . In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. The Emancipated Spectator. That’s why I decided to look into the history of the workers’ movement, to find out the reasons for the continual mismatching of workers and the intellectuals who came and visited them, either to instruct them or to be instructed by them. To show what it meant, I had to put their account in direct relation with the theoretical discourse of the philosopher who had, long ago in the Republic, told the same story by explaining that in a wellordered community everybody must do only one thing, his or her own business, and that workers in any case had no time to spend anywhere other than their workplace or to do anything but the job fitting the (in)capacity with which nature had endowed them. Rancière is correct on this, however, I find that to be a very obvious thesis.
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