Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 34 No. 3, 2014.
Review article
In(ter)ventions of Language: Stuttering, Becoming, Life
Barbara Dolenc
orcid.org/0000-0002-3589-0395
; Krapina, Croatia
Abstract
Radical possibilities of creating in philosophy and literature are constant preoccupation of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical thought. By developing numerous heterogeneous constructs of thought and writing, Deleuze indicates the instability of inert systems, criticizes the logic of representation and power relations, as well as discusses the affirmation of differences. This paper seeks to elaborate the relationship between philosophy and literature through analysis of language and resistance. Deleuze insists on differences between philosophy and literature, but at the same time he explores how these two interfere with each other and how they produce mutual transformations. This paper will therefore focus on how the author, from the position of philosophy, uses the theoretical apparatus and how he approaches the space of literature, in which this “foreign language” evokes inventive disturbances (mines, deconstructs) and intervenes within discursive power relations. Perceived as a process of continuous becoming, writing creates differences and opens up different possibilities of thought, being, and life. However, the radical potential of textual performativity (one can even argue the politics of writing) perceived this way, is not a priori guaranteed, just as the subversion is not necessarily the indisputable and sustainable effect of it. On the contrary, Deleuze, along the line of the post-structuralist philosophers, understands writing and resistance as a continuous, intensive process, within the context of specific aesthetic and political responsibility.
Keywords
philosophy; intervention; invention; language; literature; resistance; writing; becoming; difference; creating; life
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139101
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Publication date:
27.1.2015.
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