The Prisoner keyword-socialism Jacques Ranciere’s writings on workers’

Jacques Ranciere’s writings on workers’ history and democratic dissensus

and the cultural politics of literary genres

His explicit program – "to transfer the crisis into the heart of language" or

they argue

Already widely acclaimed in France

The Prisoner keyword-socialism Jacques Ranciere’s writings on workers’In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwangs imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subjectof thought, of writing, of Cold War