Questions for Ranciere

From Studyplace

• Your work has spanned many traditional fields of work, intentionally as you note. Among others, you have devoted time studying politics, labor, pedagogy, art and aesthetics. What other fields of inquiry interest? Where do you think you will go next?

• Does political disruption come from outside the police or does it arise from somewhere within the police? Is this an important or meaningful distinction?

• How do you teach? How do you organize a course? Do you assign readings? Do you lecture? What techniques have you found effective in your practice as a teacher?

• In The Ignorant Schoolmaster you write: "government doesn't owe the people an education, for the simple reason that one doesn't owe people what they can take for themselves. And education is like liberty: it isn't given; it's taken." This, and other sentiments in your writing lend themselves to a conservative, libertarian reading. Do you have sympathies for this point of view? Should governments reduce their spending on "schooling" and education in general?

• So, come clean, are you an anarchist?