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Jacques Rancière on Politics




“Politics is not made up of power relationships; it is made up of relationships between worlds.”

Jacques Rancière, from Dis-agreement: Politics and Philosophy, 1999 (via Mustafa Dikeç’s “Space, Politics, and the Political,” in Environment and Planning D, 2005

This is part of a collection of quotes related to cities. They don’t necessarily reflect our views, just topics of interest. We welcome you to add others.

Credits: Dish by Sergei Chekhonin (“Intellect Can Not Tolerate Bondage”) scanned from Russian Avant-Garde Ceramic Art.