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