TY - JOUR
T1 - The Desert Below
T2 - The Labyrinth of Sensibility between Rancière, Deleuze, and Weil
AU - McCullagh, Suzanne
AU - Ford, Casey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - This piece explores the dialogic form as a way to engage in rigorously focused philosophical analysis and the generation of problems. We take up Jacques Rancière’s understanding of the relation of aesthetics and politics, and his critique of Gilles Deleuze’s aesthetic thought in its purported inability to generate political community. To develop the stakes of this problem, we introduce Simone Weil’s concept of decreation as a possible bridge between the deformative capacity of aesthetics emphasized by Deleuze, and the politically constitutive aesthetics demanded by Rancière. To see the efficacy of the relation between the concepts of deformation, decreation, and political community, we explore the history of the problem of figuration in art and the problem of collective constitution in politics. We conclude that a process of deformation and decreation is an essential feature of political becoming which does not preclude the development of community; undoing the self, to the contrary, activates wider possibilities for relating to the human and non-human world.
AB - This piece explores the dialogic form as a way to engage in rigorously focused philosophical analysis and the generation of problems. We take up Jacques Rancière’s understanding of the relation of aesthetics and politics, and his critique of Gilles Deleuze’s aesthetic thought in its purported inability to generate political community. To develop the stakes of this problem, we introduce Simone Weil’s concept of decreation as a possible bridge between the deformative capacity of aesthetics emphasized by Deleuze, and the politically constitutive aesthetics demanded by Rancière. To see the efficacy of the relation between the concepts of deformation, decreation, and political community, we explore the history of the problem of figuration in art and the problem of collective constitution in politics. We conclude that a process of deformation and decreation is an essential feature of political becoming which does not preclude the development of community; undoing the self, to the contrary, activates wider possibilities for relating to the human and non-human world.
KW - Deleuze
KW - Rancière
KW - Weil
KW - aesthetics
KW - collectivity
KW - decreation
KW - deformation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082514198&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/20539320.2018.1517910
DO - 10.1080/20539320.2018.1517910
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082514198
SN - 2053-9320
VL - 5
SP - 157
EP - 173
JO - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
JF - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
IS - 2
ER -