Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière (1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School and Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris VIII. He first came to prominence as a co-author of Lire le Capital (1965) with Louis Althusser, before gradually turning away from structuralist Marxism to develop a distinctive body of work on politics, aesthetics and equality. Cinema has become a central focus in his thinking, explored in works such as La fable cinématographique (2001), Les écarts du cinéma (2011), Le temps du paysage (2020) and Les intervals du cinéma (2014). Through close readings of filmmakers including Eisenstein, Bresson, Godard, Straub–Huillet and Pedro Costa, Rancière approaches cinema as a mode of thought, a space where images and sounds rearrange the visible and the sayable. Rejecting fixed hierarchies and disciplinary boundaries, his writing proposes cinema as a political and aesthetic form that opens up new ways of perceiving the world. Several of his film writings have been translated into Dutch and published by Octavo, including De fabel van de cinema (2010) and De toekomst van het beeld (2010).