By Jérôme Game
What does modern French poetry do to the topic? This booklet examines the skill and results of the subject’s transmutation into a number of tactics of (de-)subjectivation via 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, development a serious equipment - a ‘poetics of becoming’ - that informs shut readings of poems and prose. relocating past tested standards of classical literary feedback, the e-book either deals a comparative dialogue of Deleuze’s notions of literature and offers new insights into French writing, addressing the political size of latest poetry from the viewpoint of present theoretical radicalism.
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21. See also Viart and Vercier, La Littérature française au présent, ch. 341–362. From Schuhl: Rose poussière (Paris: Gallimard, 1972) and from Roche: Compact (Paris: Seuil, 1966), Circus (Paris: Seuil, 1972) and CodexX (Paris: Seuil, 1974). 20 Introduction: A Poetics of Becoming n’est pas plus étrangère au poème qu’au roman, et pas moins. 57 In his own terms, Olivier Cadiot also choses prose as the neutral category in which to negotiate the generic heterogeneity that his writing calls for: Ce qui m’intéresse dans un premier temps c’est la poésie, c’est vrai, comme économie, comme goût, comme brièveté, comme rapidité.
124 Here, a process of (de-)subjectivation taking place on a pre-existing, a-formal substratum constantly (re-)formed125 is preferred to a thinking I cut from a substance-ego kind of subjectivity. It is this process that is responsible for becomings at the ef fectual level. The subjectivation/ individuation couple as alternative to the “Je/Moi” or subjectivity/identity couple appears. 126 One of the models of this theorization is the serialization of the dice throw, hence the importance of Mallarmé for Deleuze.
66. 111 Buydens, Sahara. 17. 54. 38 Introduction: A Poetics of Becoming level). 114 These multiplicities, that are also called “agencements” or arrangements,115 are not pre-determined: they build the forms of reality outside any teleology, and the virtual, which is their principle, is consequently a truly random organization of randomness (“le Chaos chaotise” says Deleuze, QQP 45). Let us summarize. 1. The virtual is the infinite of meaning; the virtual and the actual are not transcendent but immanent to each other.
