This special issue of Paragraph brings together new essays on the work of Jacques Rancière by thinkers from a range of disciplines and critical perspectives.

Introduction: Hearing Voices, Mark Robson; From Politics to Aesthetics, Jacques Rancière; Jacques Rancière and the Subversion of Mastery, Peter Hallward; Rancière and Contemporary Political Problems, Jeremy Valentine; The Unfinished Song: Intermittency and Melancholy in Rancière, Andrew Gibson; Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities, Mark Robson; Il y a des mots qu'on souhaiterait ne plus lire, Adrian Rifkin; Select Bibliography, Mark Robson; Notes on Contributors.