Autopoiesis in P. K. Page's ＂Arras＂: The Peacock Image as a Vision Machine

沛居〈掛毯〉中的自生發：作為視覺機器的孔雀意象

10.6184/TKR201406-7

Min-Hsiou Hung

自生發 ； 機器 ； 意象 ； 德勒茲與瓜達里 ； 〈掛毯〉 ； autopoiesis ； machine ； imagery ； Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ； ＂Arras＂

Tamkang Review

44卷2期（2014 / 06 / 01）

123 - 145

英文

本文從德勒茲與瓜達里的自生發概念出發，討論加拿大現代主義作家沛居早期詩作〈掛毯〉中自我佈置創作的機器性。這首詩表現了詩作環境中既有元素如何產生變形更新的生態意涵，亦即詩作自身如何成為理解視覺意象的藝術模式。本文解析〈掛毯〉詩中的意象，但不以此作為闡述德勒茲與瓜達里概念術語的寓喻。反之，閱讀〈掛毯〉旨在展演新意與古典兩者互織，進而創造意象的過程，此意象化過程尤其表現在詩中彩衣與孔雀兩處意象。自生發的自我佈置出現於彩衣意象的機器系統，開展出一道穿越疆域化、解疆域化，乃至倫理政治面向的過程。這首詩是潛在平面的樣貌、機器運作的成果，具體而言，詩作即是孔雀的生成之物。孔雀意象的運作過程，不僅揭示詩中說話人的視界，同時也改變這首詩的語言元素。此一新穎卻又古典的彩衣或習慣是機器運作的結果，孔雀不只是鳥，而是以解疆域軌跡運行的意象質素，是藝術發生過程中的自動創發連結。

This essay explores Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of autopoiesis, primarily focusing on its machinic aspect of self-positing creation, through a reading of Canadian modernist P. K. Page's early poem ＂Arras.＂ The poem reveals itself as an artistic model for understanding visual imagery as it takes up the ecological theme of the transformative renewal of living elements. Rather than interpret Page's poetic imagery as allegories of the conceptual terms theorized by Deleuze and Guattari, this essay reads ＂Arras＂ as envisioning the process of imagerization in terms of the relationship between the new and the classical-a relationship embodied in its images of the habit and the peacock. The self-positing aspect of autopoiesis builds a machinic system in the habit-image, which unfolds across a passage between territorialization and deterritorialization and in all directions across ethico-political concerns. The poem illustrates what the plane of the virtual expresses, what the machine does, and specifically what the peacock becomes. The peacock image functions to expose the speaker's vision and transforms the poem's linguistic elements. Whereas this new but classical habit is read to indicate the function of the machinic, the peacock exposes the image quality that operates as the deterritorializing trajectory and so reveals an auto-generative relevance in artistic production.

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