Poetic-communicational aspects of Rancière's political philosophy based on the concepts of tort, dissent and misidentification

Abstract

This article aims at discussing, at first, the articulation of guiding concepts of the political philosophy of Jacques Rancière: dissensus, tort and misidentification. These three notions converge into political action, which emerges when a tort is named and treated in a scene of dissent by subjects who are not seen as belonging to a community, and who, when performing the tort, verify the absence of equality in relation to others and, in this process, constitute themselves as political subjects, walking away from identities and definitions imposed on them to put limits in their participation in common good. These conceptual clarifications will allow us, in the final session of the text, to evidence some communicational and poetic aspects which articulated connections with politics, especially those linked to the scene of dissent, to the tort scenario and to the process of political subjectification that allows the creation and self-perception of actors as interlocutors.