Millet, Jean-François. The Gleaners (Des glaneuses). 1857. Oil on canvas, 83.5 × 110 cm (32.9 × 43.3 in.). Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Accession no. RF 592.
Rancière, Jacques. Le partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique
If the reader is fond of analogy, aesthetics can be understood in a Kantian sense - re-examined perhaps by Foucault - as the system of a priori forms determining what presents itself to sense experience. It is a delimitation of [14] spaces and times, of the visible and the invisible, of speech and noise, that simultaneously determines the place and the stakes of politics as a form of experience. Politics revolves around what is seen and what can be said about it, around who has the ability to see and the talent to speak, around the properties of spaces and the possibilities of time.
