Originally published in Grey Room

Every Form of Art
Has a Political Dimension”

CHANTAL MOUFFE, INTERVIEWED BY ROSALYN DEUTSCHE,
BRANDEN W. JOSEPH, AND THOMAS KEENAN1

Branden W. Joseph: Since Grey Room is primarily dedicated to questions of aesthetic practice, I’d like to begin by asking how you would understand forms of cultural discourse—for example, art—having access to the political or, rather,
to the strictly political in the way you have come to de