Historicizing untimeliness / Kristin Ross -- The lessons of Jacques Ranciere : knowledge and power after the storm / Alain Badiou -- Sophisticated continuities and historical discontinuities, or, why not protagoras? / Eric Mechoulan -- The classics and critical theory in postmodern France : the case of Jacques Ranciere / Giuseppina Mecchia -- Ranciere and metaphysics / Jean-Luc Nancy -- What is political philosophy? contextual notes / Etienne Balibar -- Ranciere in South Carolina / Todd May -- Political agency and the ambivalence of the sensible / Yves Citton -- Staging equality : Ranciere's theatrocracy and the limits of anarchic equality / Peter Hallward -- Ranciere's leftism, or politics and its discontents / Bruno Bosteels -- Jacques Ranciere's ethical turn and the thinking of discontents / Solange Guenoun -- The politics of aesthetics : political history and the hermeneutics of art / Gabriel Rockhill -- Cinema and its discontents / Tom Conley -- Politicizing art in Ranciere and Deleuze : the case of postcolonial literature / Raji Vallury -- Impossible speech acts : Jacques Ranciere's Erich Auerbach / Andrew parker -- Style indirect libre / James swenson -- The method of equality : an answer to some questions -- Jacques Ranciere