Acknowledgments \ Introduction \ 1. For A Critique of Philosophy \ Introduction \ 1.1. The Lesson of Althusser \ 1.2. The Lessons of May \ 1.3. Lessons From the Archives \ 1.4. Lessons on Philosopher-Kings \ 1.5. Lessons From Equality \ Conclusion \ 2.  Politics By Process of Elimination \ Introduction \ 2.1. On the Terrain of Policed Consensus \ 2.2. The Aesthetics of Counting \ 2.3. Supposing, Verifying, and Demonstrating Equality \ 2.4. Disputing Subjects and Litigious Objects: Politics as Dissensus \ 2.5. The Subjective Process of Politics \ Conclusion \ 3. Retrieving the Politics of Aesthetics \ Introduction \ 3.1. Analyzing the Part of Art \ 3.2. Three Regimes of Art \ 3.3. Equality in Art \ 3.4. In Place of Modernity \ 3.5. Against Postmodernity \ 3.6. Art as Dissensus \ Conclusion \ 4. Regimes of Cinema \ Introduction \ 4.1. A Historical Poetics of Cinema \ 4.2. Cinema, the Dream of the Aesthetic Age \ 4.3. The Logic of the Thwarted Fable \ 4.4. Allegories of Modernity: Deleuze and the Use of Hitchcock \ 4.5. Cinema and Its Century: Godard and the Abuse of Hitchcock \ Conclusion \ 5. Beyond Rancière \ Introduction \ 5.1. Sensing Equality? \ 5.2. The Centrality of the Imagination \ 5.3. Inventing the Trans-Subjective Imagination \ Conclusion \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index.