Democracy has been negated by consensus and the term stolen to legitimize imperial
ambitions.
Ross 11 [Kristin Professor of Comparative Literature @ NYU, Democracy for Sale in Democracy in What State? Pg 95]
Rimbaud's "Democratic," then, marks...requires no leap at all.21
This is because consensus has shrunk the stage of democracy to the point where it has become useless, a meaningless gift to be given away like we do with our old clothing.
Ranciere continues in '10[Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Dissensus on Politics and Aesthetics pg 72]
In this way, political...the rights of others.
Democracy cannot exist within institutions. Democracy is always the anarchic base that challenges institutionalized and static modes of being. This is dissensus, the radical rupturing of the police order’s consensus.
Ranciere 10 [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Dissensus on Politics and Aesthetics pg 53]
This is what demos...condition of the political.
Consensus lies at the root of new modes of racism and ethnic cleansing. The consensual regime that creates the topography of war and peace relegates this peace to 'here' while violently expelling its violent underbelly to the periphery. Violence lies at the heart of the impetus to put things in their proper place.
Ranciere 10 [[Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Chronicles of Consensual times pg viii]
The pages that follow...and of new utopias.
Thus our advocacy: Alec and I affirm democracy in [insert country]
The burden rests on those who do not exist to emerge on the basis of a fundamental wrong. This is not inclusion and exclusion, this is the rupture of what is perceptibiel.
Phillips 09[Charles, PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Political Science; Difference, Disagreement and the Thinking of Queerness pg 4]
Paradoxically, the burden...on the political stage.
Ranciere continues in 10
[Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Dissensus on Politics and Aesthetics pg 70]
You are only compelled...place in the society.
The logic of the police consists of demarcating political spaces as non-political. Only by re-qualifying what counts as political can we support democracy within the topic.
Ranciere 01 [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Ten Theses on Politics http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/Ranciere.html]
Let us begin from...two separate worlds.
