THE SUBJECTIVATION AND POLITICAL EMANCIPATION PROCESSES IN JACQUES RANCIÈRE

Abstract

Abstract: This article aims to reflect on the concept of subjectivation in Jacques Rancière, highlighting how he thinks about the production of disidentified political subjects, who appear in the polemic scene through non-hierarchical relationships and articulations. We argue that the disruptive power of politics in Jacques Rancière is not in the affirmation of the self, but in the rearticulation between elements, which generates disidentifications and gives rise to the emergence of interval identities. The process of subjectivation configures a sensitive polemic scene in which ways of being, seeing and saying are invented, contesting the way in which the sharing of the world is made and distributed hierarchically, unequally, violating the dignity and recognition of the value of every form of life. Subjectivation promotes varied arrangements and operations, which destabilize and dismantle rationalities that maintain legibility, audibility and visuality. It makes subjects appear in the midst of conflicts and negotiations for justice.