Abstract

The dancer is not a woman dancing, for these juxtaposed reasons; that is not a woman, but a metaphor summing up one of the elementary aspects of our form: knife, goblet, flower etc., and that she is not dancing, but suggesting through the miracle of bends and leaps, a kind of corporal writing, what it would take pages of prose, dialogue and description to express. In this article I examine the problematic position Jacques Rancière holds in his political philosophy with regard to ontology. Rancière famously sees politics as the redistribution of the sensible, as a moment in which those who have no part in the body politic, who are not defined as speaking beings, intervene and make themselves counted and...