ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with Rancière's theoretical thoughts, which serve as one of the theoretical pillars. In most of Rancière's writings, several elements of this sensible order are underlined again and again: visibility/invisibility, audibility/inaudibility, and the reconfigurations of spaces and of time. The chapter expresses that the symbolic capture of 9/11, the ability to register the attacks through the symbolization of American togetherness is solidified through a distribution of the sensible that structures the field of visibility and audibility with the appearance of certain affect, sights, bodies, and rhetoric, while excluding others. It considers how the experiences of sensing the catastrophe and war pave the way for processes of making sense of the attacks. The insertion of Rancière into the complex mixture of 9/11, artistic expressions, and resistance is productive, given he focuses intently on the aesthetic dimensions of the political experience.
