"Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society...Ranciere's writing strives to keep art's potential open in a time when the political appears to have all but closed down." J.J. Charlesworth, Art Review, "These essays are most valuable as the engagements of a brilliant philosopher with some of the key questions of contemporary aesthetics" Vertigo, "Like all of Jacques Ranciere's texts, The Future of the Image is vertiginously precise." Les Cahiers du cinema"

JACQUES RANCIERE is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII, France. His books include Hatred of Democracy and On the Shores of Politics (both from Verso), The Politics of Aesthetics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People and The Nights of Labor.