At ICON-S 2017 in Copenhagen, members and friends of the Political Constitutional Theory (PolCon) network organised a panel subtitled ‘A View from Political Theory‘. We will retain the subtitle at ICON-S 2018 especially as political theory cannot be said to be over-reprsented in the papers presented at the conferences. The title of this year‘s panel includes a reference to Jacques Rancière‘s notion of aesthetics and how the social/political sphere organises itself ‘aesthetically‘ in ways that allow some claims to assert themselves as politically relevant while disallowing the relevance of others. But papers in the panel do not limit themselves to Rancière. The panel includes contributions that deal more broadly with the spatial, the visual arts, architecture, or, indeed, any aesthetic ‘logic‘ that organises and delineates the social or political worlds, that draws demarcation lines into spaces and environments that are supposedly ‘democratic‘.