What do we communicate, in words, beyond the message we transmit? What power do we legitimize through language? In our relationship with others, every time we speak and write we face a crucial and, at the same time, very simple choice: continue supporting the world of inequality (its hierarchies of class, race, gender) or open a scene of equality.
The dispute over words is a vindication of language beyond its understanding as a mere tool of communication. Language is political and its use can suspend the barriers and hierarchies that sustain relations of domination. In this dialogue, Jacques Rancière and Javier Bassas offer reflections, questions and answers, which delve into the praxis of equality and offer a tour as lucid as it is entertaining through the key notions of Rancierean thought.