demos

is simultaneously the name of a community and the title signifying the division of a community due to a wrong.

Rancière uses this Greek term meaning 'the commons', 'plebeians', or 'citizens' interchangeably with 'the people' to refer to those who have no share in the communal distribution of the sensible. The dèmos is thus simultaneously the name of a community and the title signifying the division of a community due to a wrong. It is the unique power of assembling and dividing that exceeds all of the arrangements made by legislators... it is the force of commu' (Rancière 2000: 84). Rancière, Jacques. 2000. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Continuum: New York

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