The Emancipated Spectator By Jacques Ranciere

Jacques Ranciere is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris Saint-Denis. In “The Emancipated Spectator”, the author Jacque Ranciere arguments that creators employ the word spectator has a theatrical idea of “spectacle” to describe several performance that use “bodies in action before an assembled audience” in contemporary culture. Ranciere's perspective is to question on the effort to liberate the spectator that attempts activities from passivity by asking, "if it is not precisely the desire to abolish the distance that creates it".

My personal perspective on Ranciere’s subject in the article “The Emancipated Spectator” is that his critique on the aesthetic has taken a political engagement with the actual practices of collaborative