Abstract

Answering Eric Alliez’s question on his use of the notion of people and the utility of substituting it by the notion of multitude, Jacques Rancière reminds us that the notion of people is effectively constitutive of the political, because it is the generic name of the totality of processes of subjectivation that menace the representations of equality. Politics always implies one people against another: The ideas of the multitudes, by the phobia towards a politics that would define negatively, reject the negative- The notion of multitudes opposes to that of the people the claim that politics shouldn’t constitute a separated sphere. The political subjects should express the multiple that would be the Law of being. Effectively, the notion of multitudes inscribes itself in the extension of that of the productive forces. However, the multitudes, thought cannot escape the alternatives generally encountered by the thought of the political subjects