Introduction: Hearing voices

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Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Robson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.3366/para.2005.28.1.1     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis (London, Faber and Faber, 2000), 374.
2. Ranciére, 'The Politics of Literature', SubStance 33:1 [103] (2004), 10-24 (12).
3. Henceforth PL. This article offers a convenient route into recent books such as The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing, translated by Charlotte Mandell (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004)
4. and La Parole muette: Essai sur les contradictions de la littérature (Silent Speech: An Essay on the Contradictions of Literature) (Paris, Hachette, 1998).
5. Elsewhere, this might usefully be explored in the light of Jacques Derrida's suggestion: 'Literature is a modern invention, inscribed in conventions and institutions which, to hold on to just this trait, secure in principle its right to say everything. Literature thus ties its destiny to a certain noncensure, to the space of democratic freedom (freedom of the press, freedom of speech, etc.). No democracy without literature; no literature without democracy.' See On the Name, edited by Thomas Dutoit (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1995), 28.
6. Ranciére, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, translated by Julie Rose (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 30. Henceforth D.
7. 'Vox Clamans in Deserto', translated byNathalia King, in The Birth to Presence, edited by Brian Holmes (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1993), 234-47 (236).
8. Nancy has also addressed voice as a topic in 'Sharing Voices', translated by Gayle L. Ormiston, in Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy, edited by Gayle L. Ormiston and Alan D. Schrift (Albany, SUNY, 1990), 211-59.
9. and 'The Free Voice of Man', translated by Richard Stamp, in Retreating the Political (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe), edited by Simon Sparks (London, Routledge, 1997), 32-51.
10. Nancy is here echoing Martin Heidegger, 'A Dialogue on Language', in On the Way to Language, translated by Peter D. Hertz (New York, Harper & Row, 1971), 1-54.
11. Barthes, 'The Death of the Author', in The Rustle of Language, translated by Richard Howard (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989), 49-55.
12. Barthes famously proposes that 'writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin' (49). See also his S/Z, translated by Richard Miller (Oxford, Blackwell, 1990) and 'From Speech to Writing' in The Grain of the Voice:Interviews 1962-1980, translated by Linda Coverdale (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991), 3-7.
13. Among many possible references, see 'Marx's Three Voices', translated by Tom Keenan, in Friendship (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997), 98-100
14. and several sections of The Infinite Conversation, translated by Susan Hanson (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
15. Clearly I am not repeating the casual inaccuracy that would ascribe to Derrida an interest in writing to the exclusion of speech (a common misconception of the so-called critique of phonocentrism). The central references are to Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs, translated by David B. Allison (Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1973)
16. and Of Grammatology, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), but should at least include Points. .. Interviews, 1974-1994, edited by Elisabeth Weber, translated by Peggy Kamuf et al. (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1995).
17. The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge, translated by Hassan Melehy (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1994);
18. On the Shores of Politics, translated by Liz Heron (London, Verso, 1995);
19. Short Voyages to the Land of the People, translated by James B. Swenson (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003);
20. The Philosopher and His Poor, edited by Andrew Parker, translated by John Drury, Corinne Oster and Andrew Parker (Durham, Duke University Press, 2004);
21. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, translated by Gabriel Rockhill (London, Continuum, 2004).
22. There are, of course, other works as yet untranslated, including La Parole muette, Mallarmé: La Politique de la siréne (Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren) (Paris, Hachette, 1996)
23. L'Inconscient esthétique (The Aesthetic Unconscious) (Paris, Galilée, 2001)
24. Le Destin des images (The Fate of Images) (Paris, La Fabrique, 2003)
25. and Malaise dans l'esthétique (perhaps Unease in the Aesthetic) (Paris, Galilée, 2004).
26. A translation of La Fable cinématographique (Paris, LeSeuil, 2001)
27. by Emiliano Battista is currently in progress and due to appear as Film Fables (Oxford, Berg).
28. The Nights of Labor: TheWorkers'Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, translated by John Drury (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1989)
29. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, translated by Kristin Ross (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1991).
30. Althusser and Balibar, Reading Capital, translated by Ben Brewster (London, New Left Books, 1970).
31. 'Le concept de critique et la critique de l'économie politique des "Manuscrits de 1844" au "Capital"', in Lire le Capital (Paris, La Découverte, 1965; Presses Universitaires de France, 1996), 83-199.
32. Translated by Ben Brewster in Ideology, Method and Marx: Essays from Economy and Society, edited by Ali Rattansi (London, Routledge, 1989), 74-180.
33. La Leçon d'Althusser (Althusser's Lesson) (Paris, Gallimard, 1974).
34. See La Leçon d'Althusser, 9-16.
35. See, for example, Louis-Gabriel Gauny, Le philosophe plébé ien (The Plebeian Philosopher), edited by Jacques Ranciére (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1985).
36. See, most obviously, The Ignorant Schoolmaster and The Names of History.
37. 'Dissenting words-A conversation with Jacques Ranciére' (interview with Davide Panagia), Diacritics 30:2 (2000), 113-26 (120). Henceforth DW.
38. Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988), 1.
39. This has been both denied and parodied. Thus Terence Hawkes writes in his avowedly anti-historicist Shakespeare in the Present (London, Routledge, 2002) that he believes Shakespeare criticism should 'aim, in the end, to talk to the living' (4).
40. Jeffrey Masten more playfully opens his Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997) with 'I began with the desire to sleep with the dead'.
41. See Politics, Book I, 1253a1, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, edited by Jonathan Barnes, 2 vols (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995), vol. 2.
42. Although it is necessary to note Ranciére's own comments: 'my idea is that politics is not based on a linguistic destination to community, that it is not based on any anthropological disposition to the common. I start from the "speaking animal" to show that this animal is split up from the beginning: "understanding language", Aristotle says, is not the same as "possessing" it. Speaking is not the same as speaking'. From paragraph 2of 'The Thinking of Dissensus: Politics and Aesthetics'. Paper presented at the conference 'Fidelity to the Disagreement: Jacques Ranciére and the Political', Goldsmiths College, London, 16-17 September 2003. Available at: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/psrpsg/conference/fidelity.html.
43. See Republic, Book VI, particularly 493, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, including the Letters, edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1963), 729.
44. Louis Althusser, 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)', in Mapping Ideology, edited by Slavoj Ž ižek (London, Verso, 1994), 100-40.
45. Ranciére says so explicitly in PL, 13. The implicit reference is to one of the foundational texts of speech act theory, J.L. Austin's How To Do Things With Words, edited by J.O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976).
46. See the opening of the Second Essay in Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Douglas Smith (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996), 39.