랑시에르의 미학적 공동체와 ‘따로 · 함께’의 역설

Jacques Ranciére's Aesthetic Community: The Paradox of 'Being Together Apart'

The purpose of this paper is to examine Jacques Ranciére's aesthetic community as the paradox of being together apart. An aesthetic community is not a community bound up with regionalism, school relations, and kinship but an infant community of sense produced through redistribution of the sensible to reframe a new and equal common space. Ranciére claims there is an 'aesthetics' at the core of politics, because the distribution of the sensible defines what can be visible or not Ⅲ a common space. A community can be political when it makes forms of subjectivation for the uncounted appear. This paper tries to show why Ranciére's thought is important to the contemporary community discourses, examining both contributions and limits of those community discourses which focus either on being apart or on being together. Within Ranciére's three schemes of art regimes, being together belongs to the "representational regime of art" which erases the gap between poiesis and aisthēsis. In the "ethical regime of art," the community of being together without mediation is celebrated by Plato. But Plato constructs a hierarchical opposition between activity and passivity, while the anti-representationists like Gilles Deleuze dismiss the real laws of our being together, celebrating the individuation and haecceities. Accordingly, both by questioning the ways in which the community is produced and by exploring the potentials of community entailed Ⅲ separation itself, I'd like to show the political efficacy and possibility of Ranciére's aesthetic community.