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Avant la lettre
Merci, Merci, Merci, Merci
Merci, Merci, Merci, Merci
Merci, Merci, Mercy, Merci
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Mercy, Mercy, Merci, Mercy
GK (09/15/03)
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"And what words do between themselves -- couplings, matings, hybridizations -- is genius. An erotic and fertile genius. A law of life presides over their cross breedings. Only words in love sow [Seul les mots qui s'aiment sement]. Clandestine semantics." --Hélène Cixous--Giorgio Agamben, "The Thing Itself" (1984), Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (1999)
See also, Gilles A. Tiberghien, "La Voix et la Puissance: Giorgio Agamben", Nouvelle Revue Française (May 1995), 508:62-71; apropos of Giorgio Agamben's "Les Silence des mots" ...
SUSPECT TERRAIN (PROVISIONAL TERMINOLOGIES)
THE CRITICAL/POETICAL SUBLIME (ONTOLOGIE) / FIRE POWER (EXTREME INTERTEXTUALITY) / AURA/SOME-THING ELSE (THE 'S' WORD)
Terry Eagleton, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002) - "There is a teleological drive in the book which is to be expected: Marxists believe life has a purpose or can be given one. But teleological speculation can slip into religious mysticism, and Eagleton comes close. His modern tragic protagonist, caught between desire and 'the night of the world', struggles like an ascetic, a Christ-like scapegoat suffering the sins of our globalised world: 'Culture and death are not rivals at all. There is a tragic self-mutilation at the very root of civilisation.' This is what a modern tragedy would own up to: the strange sweetness of an aesthetic spectacle with suffering at its core." --Review (The Guardian Unlimited, 09/21/02)
