Alexander Stagnell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Rhetoric at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium.David Payne has a PhD in Political Theory, and lectures and researches at Södertörn University. He is also International Research Editor for Södertörn University, Sweden.Gustav Strandberg is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden.

If critical thought can be briefly defined as the activity of unravelling the different scopes of power relationships, this collection of articles draws this task to its ultimate consequences. The people alongside populism—key political categories for the debate of our time—are scrutinised in a variety of dimensions making this book an indispensable read.

• Introduction David Payne, Alexander Stagnell, & Gustav StrandbergPart I: Political Reflections on the People1. The People: Proper, Common, Improper. An Interview with Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière, David Payne, Alexander Stagnell, & Gustav Strandberg 2. Demophobia in Politics: Remarks on Liberal Anti-Populism and the Possibility of a Radical Democratic Populism Oliver Marchart 3. Logics of Democracy in the Work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Rancière Mark Devenney & Clare Woodford 4.Disavowals of Populism: The Political Displacement of Homogeneity Karl Ekeman Part II: Toward an Affectology of Populism5. The Politics of Resentment and Its Pitfalls Samo Tomšic 6. “That’s Disgusting!”: The Shifting Politics of Affect in Right-Wing Populist Mobilization Maria Brock & Jenny Gunnarsson Payne7. The People and the Image of the Leader: Reflections on Mass-Psychology Chiara Bottici Part III: The Aesthetics of the People8.Picturing the People: The Dilemmas of Democratic Representation Paula Diehl 9. Aesthetic Forms of the Political: Populist Ornaments, Cultures of Rejection, Democratic Assemblies Stefan Jonsson 10. The Undivided People: On the Hypothesis of Radical Democracy in Peter Weiss’s “The Aesthetics of Resistance” Kim West Part IV: The People beyond the Political11. Fragmentation of the Idea of the People: The Afro-Brazilian Event Muniz Sodré12.A Politics of the People and a Politics of the Popular: From the Russian Revolution to “Gramsci’s Ashes” Tora Lane 13. Facing People Ramona Rat Epilogue15. On ‘People’: Brief Theoretical Notes Michael Marder

Alexander Stagnell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Rhetoric at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium.David Payne has a PhD in Political Theory, and lectures and researches at Södertörn University. He is also International Research Editor for Södertörn University, Sweden.Gustav Strandberg is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden.

If critical thought can be briefly defined as the activity of unravelling the different scopes of power relationships, this collection of articles draws this task to its ultimate consequences. The people alongside populism—key political categories for the debate of our time—are scrutinised in a variety of dimensions making this book an indispensable read.

• Introduction David Payne, Alexander Stagnell, & Gustav StrandbergPart I: Political Reflections on the People1. The People: Proper, Common, Improper. An Interview with Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière, David Payne, Alexander Stagnell, & Gustav Strandberg 2. Demophobia in Politics: Remarks on Liberal Anti-Populism and the Possibility of a Radical Democratic Populism Oliver Marchart 3. Logics of Democracy in the Work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Rancière Mark Devenney & Clare Woodford 4.Disavowals of Populism: The Political Displacement of Homogeneity Karl Ekeman Part II: Toward an Affectology of Populism5. The Politics of Resentment and Its Pitfalls Samo Tomšic 6. “That’s Disgusting!”: The Shifting Politics of Affect in Right-Wing Populist Mobilization Maria Brock & Jenny Gunnarsson Payne7. The People and the Image of the Leader: Reflections on Mass-Psychology Chiara Bottici Part III: The Aesthetics of the People8.Picturing the People: The Dilemmas of Democratic Representation Paula Diehl 9. Aesthetic Forms of the Political: Populist Ornaments, Cultures of Rejection, Democratic Assemblies Stefan Jonsson 10. The Undivided People: On the Hypothesis of Radical Democracy in Peter Weiss’s “The Aesthetics of Resistance” Kim West Part IV: The People beyond the Political11. Fragmentation of the Idea of the People: The Afro-Brazilian Event Muniz Sodré12.A Politics of the People and a Politics of the Popular: From the Russian Revolution to “Gramsci’s Ashes” Tora Lane 13. Facing People Ramona Rat Epilogue15. On ‘People’: Brief Theoretical Notes Michael Marder