Jacques Ranci�re taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.
Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Ranci�re, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), and two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Conditions (Continuum, 2008).