Z ogromną przyjemnością zapraszamy na pierwsze po przerwie wakacyjnej spotkanie Gdańskiego Oddziału PTP, które odbędzie się 05 września 2025 w Akademii Ateneum w Gdańsku przy ulicy 3 Maja 25a w Gdańsku w godzinach 13:00-15:00 w sali 102
Wykład pt.
Children, politics and Rancière’s “method of equality": It’s about time
wygłosi
prof. Itay Snir
Abstrakt wystąpienia
This paper challenges conventional political imagination by exploring the possibility of a politics where children are equal to adults. While various thinkers have questioned the naturalness and necessity of unequal relations between children and adults, they often fail to outline an age-inclusive politics. My aim in this paper is to take some initial steps along this uncharted path by identifying the root cause of children’s political exclusion and proposing a way to overcome it. I argue that this exclusion stems from a particular temporal structure – a teleological conception of progress that, while applied not only to children, makes them a paradigmatic case of political exclusion. I connect this temporal issue to what Jacques Rancière calls “the method of inequality”, namely the infinite cycle generated by a promise of future equality that never materializes. Following Rancière, I argue that the only way to break this cycle is to take equality as a starting point to be realized in the present, rather than as a future goal. I examine the potential changes that the inclusion of children may bring to politics, arguing that the activity most associated with them – playing – can offer a new way of engaging in politics
