Dolce Stil Novo: Harmony Korine's Vernacular
2004; Michigan State University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/ncr.2004.0028
ISSN1539-6630
Autores Tópico(s)Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
ResumoThe condition of an interiority that does not achieve the turgid and defensible formality of privacy is the condition of an insufficiency in determination, or an indecision in existence that both mimics and lacerates autonomy.1 This is the paradox of existential intimacy—the simultaneous inclination toward sociality and dereliction. Its hyperbolic axes are the excessive solitude of suicide, the rigor of erotic passion, and the severe contraction of fascism. The incomparable beauty, solitude, and sincerity of suicide always involve a radically compromised individual. The hand that relinquishes life does not belong to the suicide who pulled the trigger. (For Maurice Blanchot, the lacerated solitude of the writer adheres to this logic. The writer who struggles with the language is, at the same time, himself linguistic residue: "the author.") The literature documenting the solitary confinement that structures eroticism is rather numerous. (I will note only Cristina Peri Rossi's Solitaire of Love [2000 ] as specifically exemplary.) Likewise, the society that contracts into a purified unity finds itself in permanently haunted proximity to traces of whatever "undesirables" it has [End Page 307] excreted. In dilute form, this presents a paradox to the philosophy of a certain pervasive strain of social-democratic liberalism, which, under pressure of fidelity to the primacy of cultural alterity, has disastrously sutured ethics to politics. (Traditionally contentious and co-instructive, each is now simply a discursive alibi for the other, as Alain Badiou has scolded.)2
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