The Emancipated Theorist: Indisciplinarity and the Academia
The Emancipated Theorist: Indisciplinarity and the Academia

Summary/Abstract: By refusing a distribution of roles between theorists and spectators, between critical and non-critical subjects, Jacques Rancière’s theory of intellectual emancipation is in some ways anticipating the eclipse of film theory and of critical theory as academic disciplines.The indisciplinarity advocated by Rancière requires a redefinition of academic practice as something else than what is practised by academics. In this sense, the academia should not be conceived as a place where a specific kind of people comes together, but as a common scene of critical reflection that has no proper place, where knowledge comes to exist as a common and that anybody can occupy at any time without qualification.Retracing the anti-disciplinary implications of Rancière’s argument on the spectator’s emancipation, the article will discuss an indisciplinary approach to the understanding of critical theory and the academia.

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