書評：洪席耶《現代：藝術、時間、政治》

Book Review of Jacques Rancière's Modern Times. Essays on Temporality in Art and Politics

賈克‧洪席耶（Jacques Rancière, 1940－）的《現代：藝術、時間、政治》由四篇文章構成。第一篇〈時間、敘事和政治〉認為政治時間不是一條從過去走向未來的單軌道直線，而是代表著諸種生活形式的劃分。第二篇從諸種生活形式之間衍生的矛盾出發，重新定義美學的現代性。第三篇〈舞蹈時刻〉指出現代舞的時間是獨特的，這份獨特性為它與其他表演方式，以及與生活之間的關係提供了一種新的關係範式。第四篇〈電影時刻〉以三部電影為例，分析它們的三種時間性體現。綜合而言，此書首先從時間的角度補足了洪席耶《感性劃分》中對感性平等的思考，其次延續了他對社會科學的批評。把此書結合洪席耶的其他作品，就能揭示了洪席耶整個關於美學體制思考的龐大計劃。

Jacques Rancière’s Modern Times: Essays on Temporality in Art and Politics consists of four essays. The first essay argues that the political time is not a temporal chain which is composed of consecutive moments in time and stretches from the past to the future, but a boundary that implies the hierarchy of life forms separating those who have time from those who have not. The second essay redefines the aesthetic modernity by showing that the notions of modernity and postmodernity are incapable of conceptualizing the transformations that have subverted the logic of the artistic regimes from the old to the new. The third and the fourth essays, using dance and film as examples, explain how the discussed examples draw a new fabric of sensual experience and how they weave the sensual forms of the new community. All in all, this book reflects on the concept of equality in relation to temporality. It then inherits and continues Rancière’s critics towards certain themes in social science, such as grand narratives. Taking this book and his earlier writings together, we can see a systemic and concise presentation of Rancière’s studies on aesthetic regimes.