题名

Vibration, Singularity, Event: Deleuze and Badiou on Poetic Language

并列篇名

震動、特異性、事件:德勒茲與巴迪歐論詩學語言

DOI

10.6184/TKR201406-2

作者

Frank Stevenson

关键词

巴迪歐 ; 德勒茲 ; 馬拉美 ; 詩學語言 ; 數學 ; 特異性 ; 事件 ; 震動 ; 骰子一擲 ; Badiou ; Deleuze ; Mallarmé ; poetic language ; mathematics ; singularity ; event ; vibration ; dice-throw

期刊名称

Tamkang Review

卷期/出版年月

44卷2期(2014 / 06 / 01)

页次

17 - 35

内容语文

英文

中文摘要

首先,本文探討巴迪歐(Alain Badiou)《非美學手冊》(Handbook of Inaesthetics)一書對詩學語言的分析觀點:他在該書中區分了詩學語言(poetic language)與邏輯數學(logic-mathematical)的語言。然而,數學被認定是基於可思考(thinkable)價值而存在的思維,詩詞則屬非可思考型的思維(unthinkable thought),也是純粹的事件(pure event)、純粹的特異性(pure singularity),它顯現出的語言向度(power of language)是無法被命名的。本文把巴迪歐的想法同德勒茲的詩學語言做對比:德勒茲強調聲音的物質性,把詩篇看成一個完整化、震動且顫抖(totalized, vibrating and stuttering)的語言肉身。本文提出,法國詩人馬拉美(Stéphane Mallarmé)的《愛凡泰十四行詩》(éventail)明顯地符合德勒茲的詩學語言概念─震動的肉身。在此,本文亦回顧巴迪歐對於馬拉美〈牧神的獨白〉(Monologue of a Faun)與前伊斯蘭時代阿拉伯詩人拉畢斑(Labid ben Rabi'a)作品的解讀。本人認為,巴迪歐與德勒茲皆視詩學語言這個概念為「特異事件」(singular event),兩者皆關注詩詞當中消弭內外(inside and outside)、形式與內容(form and content)差別的不可確定或消弭。最後,本文簡扼地勾勒出巴迪歐與德勒茲對於馬拉美長詩〈骰子一擲〉(Un Coup de Dés)的分析。這裡,我們看到兩位思想家的顯著的不同點,但也看見他們共通的見解認知—詩篇本身的形式與內容已無法區別劃分,骰子延宕地一擲這個舉動,在這裡被看做詩篇本身的 發聲行為(utterance),或是詩篇本身動能(driving force)的展現,也可被視作詩篇 本身的實在化(actualization)與意義的顯現。

英文摘要

Here I first look at Badiou's "analytic" view of poetic language in Handbook of Inaesthetics, where he distinguishes it from logical-mathematical language. Whereas mathematics is "thought that exists precisely inasmuch as it is thinkable," poetry is an unthinkable thought and a pure event, a pure singularity that cannot "name" the very "power of language" that it manifests. I then contrast this with Deleuze's theory of poetic language, which emphasizes the physicality of voice and sees the poem itself as a totalized, vibrating or "stuttering" language-body. After suggesting how Mallarmé's three "fan" (éventail) sonnets easily fit the Deleuzian notion of poem as vibrating body, I turn to Badiou's reading of passages from Mallarmé's "Monologue of a Faun" and from a pre-Islamic ode by the Arab poet Labid ben Rabi'a. I will suggest that Badiou and Deleuze, who both look at poetic language as a singular event, also both note the indeterminacy or disappearance of the difference between the poem's "outside" (form) and "inside" (content). Thus finally I briefly explore Badiou's and Deleuze's approaches to Mallarmé's long poem "Un Coup de Dés," where once again we see these two thinkers' predictable differences but also their common awareness that we finally cannot distinguish between a poem's form and content, between the indefinitely delayed "dice-throw" taken as the driving force or utterance of the poem and taken as its actualization, its meaning.

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