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The paper analyses the role that mineral objects and stones, described in medieval sources as votive offerings, play in the construction of a significant world. To do this, it evaluates the relationship that they establish, in the miraculous context, with the devotees, which configures them in a rank of entity equivalent or superior to that of the properly human due to the purpose and the way in which each actant uses them, and especially by the sensory aspect that defines such contacts allowing us to recognize specific characteristics of a sensorium that we qualify as devotional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents an interpretation of the notions of aesthetics and politics, deeply intertwined in the thought of J. Rancière. In the fist part the paper intends to show politics as an essentially disensual activity and opposed to the police organization that characterizes contemporary post-politics. In the second stage looks for evidence politics as a kind of practice able to articulate new specialties and shows the political nature that has the art as a creator of extraterritorial and dissensual spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]