The Future of the Image

Synopsis

Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, jacques rancière’s work returns politics to its central place in understanding art. In the future of the image, jacques rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image incontemporary art, showing how art and politics have always beenintrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as godard and bresson, andthinkers such as foucault, deleuze, adorno, barthes, lyotard andgreenberg, rancière shows that contemporary theorists of the image aresuffering from religious tendencies.