dissensus

is a fundamental discord resulting from conflicts over the distribution of the sensible.

Prior to linguistic or cultural misunderstanding, Rancière isolates a fundamental discord that results from conflicts over the distribution of the sensible. Whereas la meconnaissance (lack of comprehension) and le malentendu (misunderstanding) produce obstacles to litigation that are at least in theory surmountable, la mesentente is a conflict over what is meant by 'to speak' and 'to understand' as well as over the horizons of perception that distinguish the audible from the inaudible, the comprehensible from the incomprehensible, the visible from the invisible. A case of disagreement arises when the perennial persistence of a wrong enters into conflict with the established police order and resist the forms of juridical litigation that are imposed on it' (Rancière 2000: 85). Rancière, Jacques. 2000. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Continuum: New York

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dissensus