Utopian Practices and the Post-Avant-Garde Within Rancière's Concept of the Aesthetics

The paper examines the idea of art as a utopian practice by the French philosopher Mikel Dufrenne, and its meaning in the present, in the so-called the post-age where everything exists simultaneous and where history seems to have ended. The idea of utopia always implies temporality - a critique of the present and a projection of the future based on the experience of the past - but temporality as such is called into question in the great NOW, and that makes every utopian practice seem absurd. The focus of the analysis is placed on the new concept of the aesthetic proposed by the contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière, speaking of the aesthetic revolution in the distribution of sensibility through a fundamental change in the position and conception of the place of art.