By Cadiot, Olivier; Fourcade, Dominique; Game, Jřm̥e; Lucot, Hubert; Prigent, Christian
What does modern French poetry do to the topic? This booklet examines the ability and results of the subject’s transmutation into quite a few procedures of (de-)subjectivation by means of taking a look at the works of 4 modern writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Hubert Lucot. the writer explores their paintings within the context of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, construction a severe gear - a ‘poetics of changing into’ - that informs shut readings of poems and prose. relocating past validated standards of classical literary feedback, the ebook either deals a comparative dialogue of Deleuze’s notions of literature and offers new insights into French writing, addressing the political size of up to date poetry from the viewpoint of present theoretical radicalism
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Introduction: A Poetics of Becoming 39 c’est se dif férencier” (DR 272). This process of actualization-as-dif ferentiation is called becoming. 116 The ultimate dimension of Being-as-Life is the virtual as infinite meaning; the dynamic principle of this dimension is the becoming. 117 3. At an ef fective, physical level the becoming is the dimension of processes of individuation rather than of individuals: pre-individual impersonal nomadic singularities, magmatic dif ferences, multiplicities. In Deleuze’s materialist ontology the individual (animal or purely physical) is never a given but a relative construct, a phase, a moment in the permanent ontogenesis or constructivist process that is life.
In L’île déserte et autres textes. 238–269. 67 Art. cit. Introduction: A Poetics of Becoming 23 epistemological partiality could trigger in a piece of literary criticism,68 it is the rapport between theory and evaluation woven by Deleuze in the architectonics of his ontology, and the meticulousness of his conceptual montages, that will form the background of my analysis. Literary criticism is normative. What it really needs to do, when summoning the ambition to tackle abstract issues such as subjectivity, is not to camouf lage its relativity – the result of its sensibility and choices – but to strengthen its speculative foundations.
90 It is neither a “fondation” nor a “fondement”, but an “ef fondement”, that is to say a radical absence of foundation: the precarious form of Being is shattered when the preindividual forces of life return as the selection of only that which dif fers. In this sense Being-as-pure-dif ference is also Being-as-pure-time. Let us examine these three complicated syntheses in more detail with Alberto Gualandi’s clear account. The everyday present is the time of sensibility built into habits. 91 But it is still the time of the ef fectivity of events: Deleuze calls it Chronos.