Jacques Rancière

Jan 26, 2024 | versobooks.com | Jacques Rancière |Walter Rodney

An audience can tell you everything. There’s not a distracted soul in the room; young people, some with pencil and paper in hand, taking notes: they don’t want to miss a word. “Cinema is like an ongoing political rally with the audience,” the man at the front of the room says. The footage is from the early nineties. By then Ousmane Sembène was an old man, but you couldn’t tell from the way he talks.

Aug 10, 2023 | versobooks.com | T. J. Clark |Alessandro Giammei |Ara Merjian |Jacques Rancière

Blog postDaniel Ward interviews art historian T. J. Clark about Pier Paolo Pasolini, neorealism, the influence of the Communist Party on post-war Italian culture and the recently published collection of Pasolini writing on painting,Heretical Aesthetics. T. J. Clark and Dan Ward Daniel Ward: I feel I can only begin speaking with you about film, and Pasolini in particular, by asking about some closing lines from your book Farewell to an Idea.