THE POLITICS OF PROLETARIAN IDLENESS: LIFE AND ACTION IN RANCIÈRE

Abstract

In its latest research, Rancière has dislocated the political question for what would be their most intimate terrain and primitive - the literary and aesthetic revolution. Thereby he emphasises that the modern social utopia has constituted itself against politics. In this article we will try to go in reverse sense some ways of this path. The present work would like, starting with examples of recent social struggles, to contribute to thinking about the conditions of possibility of an emancipation policy able to reconcile itself with the aesthetic revolution; and more particularly, with what is accordingly to Rancière unprecedented sensible experience that made this revolutions appear in the world: the idleness of the proletarian.