scholarly journals O Espaço da Ficção:Linguagem, Estética e Política / The space of fiction: language, aesthetics, politics

2016 ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Eduardo Pellejero

RESUMOA fragmentação do mundo e do saber sobre o mundo numa série de esferas autônomas constitui a herança – ao mesmo tempo libertadora e alienante – da modernidade. Os seus efeitos são experimentados por nós dos mais diversos modos, no domínio das ciências e das artes, da reflexão filosófica e da práxis histórica. Numerosas tentativas procuraram, e continuam a procurar, responder a essa dispersão, oferecendo um horizonte de sentido através de sistemas conceptuais, modelos de comunicação ou estruturas de administração. Porém, inclusive quando possam considerar certa abertura, essas tentativas sempre implicam um princípio de totalização da realidade pela representação, ou uma referência da linguagem à forma do verdadeiro, ou uma redução da vida à lógica da efetividade. A ficção é ao mesmo tempo menos ambiciosa e mais precária, mas eventualmente pode chegar a nos oferecer uma forma incomensurável de relacionar-nos com a fragmentação do mundo moderno, sem fechá-lo peremptoriamente na conta de nenhum dispositivo de saber-poder nem de forma alguma de consenso. O presente trabalho pretende apresentar alguns conceptos de ficção que, de Nietzsche a Foucault e de Vaihinger a Saer, dão conta da potência do falso.Palavras-chave: rasura, cartografia, socius; RESUMENLa ruptura entre el pensamiento de la naturaleza como physis y el pensamiento humano conduce a sufrimientos y equívocos para el hombre en el campo de las subjetividades. Una relación afirmativa con el devenir, en acuerdo con la propuesta de Nietzsche de sabiduría dionisíaca, reconduciría al hombre al camino de la vida trágica - aquella que produce vigor al afirmar el dolor y la diferencia - anulando la falsa oposición hombre/naturaleza. Inspirado en Nietzsche, Deleuze y Guattari proponen combates contra el fascismo de socius, del Estado, del capitalismo - es decir, de los varios territorios de saberes y poderes establecidos - que capturan los cuerpos y anulan sus potencias. Un instrumento para estas luchas es la producción de borraduras contra-fascistas sobre las codificaciones de poder. La cuestión de cómo producir por sí mismos cuerpos sin órganos como una forma de escapar a la organicidad del socius, se hace posible gracias al potencial que la sensación de borrar y redimensionar las cartografías de las subjetividadesPalabras clave:borradura, cartografía, socius ABSTRACTThe rupture between the thought of nature as physis and human thought leads to suffering and confusion for man in the fields of subjectivity. An affirmative relationship with becoming, in accordance with the proposal of Nietzsche's concept of dionysian wisdom, might lead man once again to the path of tragic life - one that produces strength by asserting pain and difference – thus surpassing the false opposition man/nature. Inspired by Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari propose fighting against the fascism of the socius, the State, of capitalism and all the dominant discourses of established knowledge and established power that capture body and its will. An instrument for such struggle is the production of counterfascist erasures on the encodings of power. The question of how to produce bodies without organs as a way to escape the organic structure of the socius is made possible by the power of sensation to erase and rediagram the cartographies of subjectivity.Keywords: erasure, cartography, socius 

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
João Lúcio Dias Soares

RESUMOA ruptura entre o pensamento da Natureza como physis e o pensamento humano conduz a sofrimentos e equívocos para o homem no campo das subjetividades. Uma relação afirmativa com o devir, em acordo com a proposta de Nietzsche de sabedoria dionisíaca, reconduziria o homem ao caminho da vida trágica – aquela que produz vigor ao afirmar a dor e a diferença – anulando a falsa oposição homem/natureza. Inspirados em Nietzsche, Deleuze e Guattari realizam o combate contra os fascismos do socius, do Estado, do capitalismo – ou seja, dos vários territórios de saberes e poderes estabelecidos – que capturam os corpos e anulam suas potências. Um instrumento para essas lutas é a produção de rasuras contrafascistas sobre as codificações do poder. A questão de como produzir para si corpos sem órgãos, como forma de escapar à organicidade do socius, se faz possível pelo potencial que a sensação tem de rasurar e rediagramar as cartografias das subjetividades.Palavras-chave: rasura, cartografia, socius RESUMENLa ruptura entre el pensamiento de la naturaleza como physis y el pensamiento humano conduce a sufrimientos y equívocos para el hombre en el campo de las subjetividades. Una relación afirmativa con el devenir, en acuerdo con la propuesta de Nietzsche de sabiduría dionisíaca, reconduciría al hombre al camino de la vida trágica - aquella que produce vigor al afirmar el dolor y la diferencia - anulando la falsa oposición hombre/naturaleza. Inspirado en Nietzsche, Deleuze y Guattari proponen combates contra el fascismo de socius, del Estado, del capitalismo - es decir, de los varios territorios de saberes y poderes establecidos - que capturan los cuerpos y anulan sus potencias. Un instrumento para estas luchas es la producción de borraduras contra-fascistas sobre las codificaciones de poder. La cuestión de cómo producir por sí mismos cuerpos sin órganos como una forma de escapar a la organicidad del socius, se hace posible gracias al potencial que la sensación de borrar y redimensionar las cartografías de las subjetividadesPalabras clave:borradura, cartografía, socius ABSTRACTThe rupture between the thought of nature as physis and human thought leads to suffering and confusion for man in the fields of subjectivity. An affirmative relationship with becoming, in accordance with the proposal of Nietzsche's concept of dionysian wisdom, might lead man once again to the path of tragic life - one that produces strength by asserting pain and difference – thus surpassing the false opposition man/nature. Inspired by Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari propose fighting against the fascism of the socius, the State, of capitalism and all the dominant discourses of established knowledge and established power that capture body and its will. An instrument for such struggle is the production of counterfascist erasures on the encodings of power. The question of how to produce bodies without organs as a way to escape the organic structure of the socius is made possible by the power of sensation to erase and rediagram the cartographies of subjectivity.erasure, cartography, sociusKeywords: erasure, cartography, socius 


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Baugh

In Bergsonism, Deleuze refers to Bergson's concept of an ‘open society’, which would be a ‘society of creators’ who gain access to the ‘open creative totality’ through acting and creating. Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy is oriented toward the goal of such an open society. This would be a democracy, but not in the sense of the rule of the actually existing people, but the rule of ‘the people to come,’ for in the actually existing situation, such a people is ‘lacking’. When the people becomes a society of creators, the result is a society open to the future, creativity and the new. Their openness and creative freedom is the polar opposite of the conformism and ‘herd mentality’ condemned by Deleuze and Nietzsche, a mentality which is the basis of all narrow nationalisms (of ethnicity, race, religion and creed). It is the freedom of creating and commanding, not the Kantian freedom to obey Reason and the State. This paper uses Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, and Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: For a Minor Literature, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy? to sketch Deleuze and Guattari's conception of the open society and of a democracy that remains ‘to come’.


2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mawere

In the context of the hashtag movement #ThisFlag, this paper examines the sensual affects drawn from flag symbolism and why the Zimbabwean flag is policed by the state. It uses the symbolism and politics of the hashtag movements by focusing on Evan Mawarire’s national lament and the Zimbabwean flag. It employs a literary and discursive analysis of Mawarire’s lament using desktop research on the contestations surrounding the flag. It shows that in dominant nationalist discourses, the flag is imaged as the land/nation and feminised to warrant it utmost respect, protection, sanctity and re/productive capacity. On the other hand, the #ThisFlag has made use of the flag to resist and subvert grand and naturalised dominant discourses of nationalism and citizenship to foster new imagi/nations of the nation. The use of the flag by the movement provoked ZANU-PF’s ownership of the national flag, which is quite similar to and has been drawn from the flag of the party, hence the movement was challenging the identity of the party, its ownership and its relevance. The paper shows the fluidity of symbols and symbolic meanings and why #ThisFlag had symbolic radical power and the possibilities of using the state’s and ZANU-PF’s cultural tools to challenge ZANU-PF’s hold on national knowledge and power. It contributes to our understanding of both state-power retention and how subaltern voices can uncover the agency of subjects within the very instruments of control incessantly used by dominant regimes.


Author(s):  
Gavin Rae

This chapter engages with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s analysis of the war machine, suggesting that it contradicts Arendt’s analysis and offers the most radical critique within the radical-juridical paradigm. Premised on the notion that we must rethink sovereignty from ontological difference rather than unity, Deleuze and Guattari radically undermine the indivisibility that defines the classic-juridical conception. Far from being located in one individual or point, sovereignty is always tied to the State, which is a multiplicity that expresses the constantly moving, fluid, and dynamic field of difference. By thinking the social world in terms of heterogeneity, Deleuze and Guattari undermine the hierarchical conception of sovereignty underpinning the classic-juridical model, but continue to implicitly insist that State sovereignty is tied to the maintenance of juridical order; an order that is always threatened by or in conflict with the war machine that disrupts it. As a consequence, they conclude that sovereign order is always far more unstable and disordered than it appears to be.


2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 77-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Froud ◽  
Sukhdev Johal ◽  
Michael Moran ◽  
Karel Williams

This article uses the example of public sector outsourcing to explore how elite power can be fallible. A contract between the state and private companies represents a complex interweaving of different kinds of power with uncertain outcomes: the experience of outsourcing in the UK and elsewhere is that it frequently goes wrong, with fiascos creating political embarrassment for states and financial problems for companies. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, the article explores how the contract is a political device that can be both tool and weapon but which has uncertain outcomes. In doing so, it makes a distinctive contribution by arguing that elite work is often about repair and managing the political or financial consequences of failure.


Author(s):  
jan jagodzinski

AbstractThis chapter attempts to provide a broad understanding of post-digital and post-Internet problematic drawing on the state of screen culture, digitalization, and networked art. It calls on the theories of Paul Virilio and Bernard Stiegler to highlight some of the difficulties and malaise they have articulated related to the speed of technologies and their proletarianization. Throughout this chapter, voices of Deleuze and Guattari are also heard and summoned. It concludes by examining several networked art installations as exemplars of resistance to answer their concerns. The chapter ends on a question mark as to where to turn to next.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Esita Sur

Dominant discourses on Muslim women have revolved around their marginal locations in commu-nity as well as in society. It has mainly been subjected to socio-economic and political structures and conditions as well. However, it is worth mentioning that marginality is not only a lived experi-ence but it also has metaphoric dimensions. The state of marginality relates not only to the poor socio-economic status of Muslim women but the politics of representation of their identities like veiled, passive as well as meek victims in various discourses also constructs the core of their mar-ginal location in the larger society. Therefore, the marginalisation of Muslim women seems to be visible in various discourses in India. Briefly, the paper will attempt to comprehend the undercur-rents functioning behind the construction of the very concept of marginality and locate Muslim women in popular and academic discourses on marginality.


Author(s):  
Paul Raekstad

Paul Raekstad turns to Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of the molar and molecular. He argues that while these differ in nature or scale, this does not necessarily mean they differ in size or extension. Based on this argument, Raekstad examines and pinpoints a problem with vanguardist approaches to revolution which, he shows, is not a problem of organisation or unification as such, but of the kinds of organisation and unification that are required to go beyond capitalism and the State.


Author(s):  
Timothy Nicholas Laurie

This paper examines Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s theories of writing and the State in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, teasing out issues of gender, primitivism and academic expertise in the authors’ claims about power and politics. While noting the benefits of politically analysing social customs and traditions, Laurie highlights the complicities between Deleuze and Guattari's theories and the assumptions embedded in their anthropological sources. He further argues that the cultural and historical speculations in Anti-Oedipus cannot be divorced from the authors' privilege of philosophy as a uniquely European creative space. Seeking an alternative perspective on cultural translation, the paper turns to Walter Mignolo’s study of the 'book' in Spanish-Amerindian colonial encounters. Foregrounding the critical value of philology for ‘de-colonising’ theory, Mignolo argues that Eurocentric cultural comparisons serve to legitimate particular ways of knowing within contested fields of representation. However, in both Deleuze and Guattari and Mignolo, the paper questions the gender dynamics of writing practices implicitly articulated in meta-narratives about the State and/or colonialism. Laurie suggests that these authors frequently remain oblivious to the role of women in the historical contexts examined, and that understanding political dynamics within cultural groups requires questioning the privilege of writing itself, both in and outside the academy. While sympathetic to the role of political philosophy in negotiating complex historical issues, this paper also advocates a rethinking of the subordinate place attributed to anthropological and historical research practices in the theoretical exegeses of Deleuze, Guattari and Mignolo.


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