My protracted stay in Paris, and other writing, has brought posting here to a complete standstill....

---An overlooked but essential essay from the May issue of Le Monde Diplo: Stratagème de la droite américaine, mobiliser le peuple contre les intellectuels.

---Artnet's Ben Davis writes about the art world's recent fascination with the thought of Jacques Rancière. You can read a version of Ranciere's Politics of Aesthetics essay posted on KleinTheatre [worth a read], and here's an interview from an old issue of Radical Philosophy.