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Time in Aesthetic Politics: Jacques Rancière on Anachrony
Jianyu He

Abstract
The issue of time is at the core of Jacques Rancière’s aesthetic politics. Anachrony occurs at the very time when the politics of equality pursued by Rancière takes place. The proposal of a positive anachrony is based on Rancière’s deconstruction of the concept of anachronism. The Annales School regarded anachronism as the most unforgivable sin in writing history. It adopted a series of poetic means to redeem anachronism and establish the scientific status of historical discourse. Rancière reveals that this historical science, based on linear time and constituting time as a whole, hides profound inequalities and that anachrony is the essence of history, which contains both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Anachrony makes it possible to write the history of the proletarians, who are regarded as heretics, and the proletarians, as a synonym for anachrony, demonstrate the practical possibility and emancipatory potential of anachrony.

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