Cette thèse aborde la question de la valeur de la littérature contemporaine, en posant la question de la puissance de la création langagière. Dans la mesure où l’humanisme tombe en désuétude avec la fin de l’hégémonie médiatique de l’imprimerie, et où le capitalisme contemporain assigne à la culture un rôle économique et récréatif, la « littérature » se retrouve sans « critère final » pour penser sa puissance non économique. En d’autres termes, quels sont les effets intermédiaux de la création langagière livresque qui survivent à l’humanisme tout en résistant à la communication récréative? Il en va bien sûr de la nature même de la « création littéraire ». Le premier chapitre explore les liens entre l’humanisme et l’imprimerie à partir d’un concept de fongibilité, et introduit un ensemble de concepts clé. Le deuxième chapitre présente un autre ensemble de concepts (dont le geste vertical), cette fois pour penser le langage en termes de pouvoir et de puissance. Le troisième chapitre aborde le « capitalisme civilisationnel » en termes intermédiaux. On y réfléchit sur la saturation, la séparation et la fenestration, notamment à partir d’une éthique du jeu. Le quatrième chapitre traite de la question de la plasticité. Enfin, les cinquième et sixième chapitres forment deux exemples – des exemples de puissance – à partir des oeuvres de Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) et de David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). Le corpus théorique se compose d’éléments puisés d’une part dans l’oeuvre de Walter Benjamin et de Giorgio Agamben, selon un matérialisme messianique, et d’autre part dans celle de Gilles Deleuze. Certaines considérations sont également tenues sous l’influence de Michel Foucault et de Ludwig Wittgenstein. / This thesis broaches the value of contemporary literature as power (puissance) of language creation. Given that humanism becomes obsolete with the end of the printing press media dominance, and given that contemporary capitalism assigns an economical and recreational role to culture, “literature” is left without any “final criterion” to think its non-economical power. In other words, which intermedial effects of language creation through book form survives humanism while withstanding recreational communication? In the process, the practice of creative writing and its idea are set under a new paradigm. The first chapter explores the relationships between humanism and the printing press based on a concept of fungibility, and it introduces a set of key concepts. The second chapter presents another set of concepts (including vertical gesture), this time in order to think language in terms of ruling power (pouvoir) and virtual power (puissance). Chapter three broaches the idea of “civilizational capitalism” in intermedial terms. Saturation, separation and windowing are considered according to a game/play ethic. Chapter four is about plasticity. Finally, chapters five and six follow two examples—examples of virtual power, those of contemporary French writer Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) and American novelist David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). The theoretical corpus is composed of elements taken, on the one hand, from Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s works (regarding messianic materialism), and on the other hand, from Gilles Deleuze’s works. Some ideas are also influenced by Michel Foucault’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works.

Cette thèse aborde la question de la valeur de la littérature contemporaine, en posant la question de la puissance de la création langagière. Dans la mesure où l’humanisme tombe en désuétude avec la fin de l’hégémonie médiatique de l’imprimerie, et où le capitalisme contemporain assigne à la culture un rôle économique et récréatif, la « littérature » se retrouve sans « critère final » pour penser sa puissance non économique. En d’autres termes, quels sont les effets intermédiaux de la création langagière livresque qui survivent à l’humanisme tout en résistant à la communication récréative? Il en va bien sûr de la nature même de la « création littéraire ». Le premier chapitre explore les liens entre l’humanisme et l’imprimerie à partir d’un concept de fongibilité, et introduit un ensemble de concepts clé. Le deuxième chapitre présente un autre ensemble de concepts (dont le geste vertical), cette fois pour penser le langage en termes de pouvoir et de puissance. Le troisième chapitre aborde le « capitalisme civilisationnel » en termes intermédiaux. On y réfléchit sur la saturation, la séparation et la fenestration, notamment à partir d’une éthique du jeu. Le quatrième chapitre traite de la question de la plasticité. Enfin, les cinquième et sixième chapitres forment deux exemples – des exemples de puissance – à partir des oeuvres de Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) et de David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). Le corpus théorique se compose d’éléments puisés d’une part dans l’oeuvre de Walter Benjamin et de Giorgio Agamben, selon un matérialisme messianique, et d’autre part dans celle de Gilles Deleuze. Certaines considérations sont également tenues sous l’influence de Michel Foucault et de Ludwig Wittgenstein. / This thesis broaches the value of contemporary literature as power (puissance) of language creation. Given that humanism becomes obsolete with the end of the printing press media dominance, and given that contemporary capitalism assigns an economical and recreational role to culture, “literature” is left without any “final criterion” to think its non-economical power. In other words, which intermedial effects of language creation through book form survives humanism while withstanding recreational communication? In the process, the practice of creative writing and its idea are set under a new paradigm. The first chapter explores the relationships between humanism and the printing press based on a concept of fungibility, and it introduces a set of key concepts. The second chapter presents another set of concepts (including vertical gesture), this time in order to think language in terms of ruling power (pouvoir) and virtual power (puissance). Chapter three broaches the idea of “civilizational capitalism” in intermedial terms. Saturation, separation and windowing are considered according to a game/play ethic. Chapter four is about plasticity. Finally, chapters five and six follow two examples—examples of virtual power, those of contemporary French writer Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) and American novelist David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). The theoretical corpus is composed of elements taken, on the one hand, from Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s works (regarding messianic materialism), and on the other hand, from Gilles Deleuze’s works. Some ideas are also influenced by Michel Foucault’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works.

Submitted by ANA KARLA PEREIRA RODRIGUES (anakarla_@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-27T12:35:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1101166 bytes, checksum: 140740be19433a16721ed571a9cc8fb6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-27T12:35:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1101166 bytes, checksum: 140740be19433a16721ed571a9cc8fb6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this dissertation, our research’s object is centered in the use of key concepts of camp, biopolitics, homo sacer and exception, under the form of extermination, especially consolidated after the last Brazilian military regime of 1964 in its permanent into the current democratic regime, in 2014. Our problem question can be formulated as follows: Is there a continuity of authoritarian policies in Brazil, after so many years of dictatorship, in relation to those excluded by the system? Those who are life-killing, but not sacrificable, through extermination as a paradigm of contemporary government? In this way, we start from the hypothesis that the Brazilian military regime, terminated in 1985, based on the National Security Doctrine and the biopolitical management of the Brazilian government historically considered, together with the practices still present, fifty years after the beginning that regime and three decades after its completion are reflected in a camp’s form as a modern biopolitical paradigm on the indolent and useless bodies of society, notably the poor and opponents of the regime. This hypothesis are supported by adaptive interpretation from the contributions of Homo Sacer, State of Exception, articles and interviews of Giorgio Agamben, into previous readings to the research, perceive the existence of traces of this theory that can be applied to Brazil: the existence of the camp as a modern biopolitical paradigm; the torture, extermination and enforced disappearance persisting’s practices; and, a true regime of permanent exception, with determinable time and space, on the population possibly converted as homini sacri. Therefore, the present dissertation will use a deductive approach methodology, together with a historicalcomparative procedure method and a bibliographic research technique to explain the current Brazilian situation. The organization of this work will be in three chapters: first, we determine the assumptions present in this work, presenting the Brazilian historicalpolitical antecedents’, the biopolitical archeology of the contemporary state and the agambenian conceptual discussions of homo sacer, camp, biopolitics and permanent exception. Next, we seek a definition of forced disappearance and extermination between the various key-concepts close to it, and delimit the practice and theory of dictatorship and democracy in relation to our key concepts. In the last part, we present the Brazilian biopolitical governance paradigm, the place of Agambenian camp execution and permanent extermination and the confrontations and uncertainties about the life-that-canbe- killed in Brazil. The objective is to present the historical-philosophical assumptions of the Military Dictatorship to the Six Republic, the institutional approach of homo sacer in the Brazilian State and the challenges and threats to democratic consolidation in Brazil. It concludes by confirming the hypothesis, partially to the focused period, converging the previous historical practice to the military regime for the analyzed period, at the same time that it points out ways and difficulties in the probability of expansion of this extermination. / Nesta dissertação, nosso objeto de pesquisa está centrado numa leitura biopolítica da histórica brasileira, a partir dos aportes de Giorgio Agamben, sob a forma de extermínio, especialmente consolidado após o último regime militar brasileiro de 1964 naquilo em que permanece no regime democrático atual, em 2014. A nossa pergunta-problema pode ser assim formulada: Há de se falar de uma continuidade das políticas autoritárias do Brasil, passados tantos anos da ditadura, em relação a aqueles excluídos pelo sistema, aqueles que são vida matável impunemente, através do extermínio como paradigma de governo contemporâneo? Desta forma, partimos da hipótese que o regime militar brasileiro, encerrado em 1985, tendo por base teórica a Doutrina de Segurança Nacional e da histórica gestão biopolítica brasileira, em conjunto com as práticas ainda presentes, cinquenta anos depois do início daquele regime e três décadas após o seu término se refletem em uma forma de campo como paradigma biopolítico moderno sobre os corpos indóceis e inúteis da sociedade, destacadamente os pobres e opositores ao regime. Essa hipótese alicerça-se na interpretação adaptativa a partir dos aportes das obras Homo Sacer, Estado de Exceção, artigos e entrevistas de Giorgio Agamben, parte destas leituras prévias à pesquisa, percebendo a existência de traços desta teoria que podem ser aplicados ao Brasil: a existência do campo como paradigma biopolítico moderno; a persistência de práticas de tortura, de extermínio e desaparecimento forçado; e, um verdadeiro regime de exceção permanente, com tempo e espaço determináveis, sobre a população potencialmente convertida como homini sacri. Para tanto, a presente dissertação utilizou de uma metodologia de abordagem dedutivo, em conjunto com um método de procedimento histórico-comparativo e com técnica de pesquisa bibliográfica para explicitar a situação atual brasileira. A organização deste trabalho se dará em três capítulos: primeiramente determinamos os pressupostos presentes neste trabalho, apresentando os antecedentes histórico-políticos brasileiro, a arqueologia biopolítica do Estado contemporâneo e as discussões conceituais agambenianas de homo sacer, campo, biopolítica e de exceção permanente. Em seguida, buscamos uma definição de desaparecimento forçado e extermínio entre os vários conceitos próximos a este e delimitamos a prática e a teoria da ditadura e da democracia em relação aos nossos conceitos-chave. Na última parte, expomos o paradigma de governo biopolítico brasileiro, o local do campo agambeniano de extermínio e os enfrentamentos e as incertezas sobre a vida matável no Brasil. Objetiva-se, assim, apresentar os pressupostos histórico-filosóficos da Ditadura Militar à Sexta República, a abordagem institucional do homo sacer no Estado Brasileiro e desafios e as ameaças a consolidação democrática no Brasil. Conclui-se pela confirmação da hipótese, parcialmente ao período enfocado, confluindo a prática histórica anterior ao regime militar para o período analisado, ao mesmo tempo que aponta caminhos e dificuldades frente a probabilidade de expansão desse extermínio.

This dissertation, All Things Commune: The Communal Imaginary in Twenty-First-Century French Fiction & Poetry, is animated by two fundamental questions: How can life be led differently, together? And, what is French literature’s radical political potential? Over the course of this project, I argue that twenty-first-century French literature is a site of radical political imagination, and, in certain cases, a veritable form of radical political practice. Through close readings of works by a diverse set of authors – including Jean Rouaud, Yannick Haenel, Virginie Despentes, and Jean-Marie Gleize – I reveal a countercurrent of twenty-first-century French literature bound up in a radical politics that is invested in imagining alternative forms of community that are autonomous from the French state, capitalism, governance, and traditional political structures. I read these literary works in light of theories of community developed by collectives such as Tiqqun and Le Comité invisible and critical theorists like Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Rancière. All Things Commune demonstrates how reading these authors and theorists together reveals a shared imaginary of alternative communal life and radical Leftist politics, which I place under the rubric of destituent power. All Things Commune insists on the profound continuities between contemporary French literature, history, and politics. Overall, this project questions the narrow political frameworks through which twenty-first-century French literature continues to be read and demonstrates how radical politics appear in unexpected ways in a period of literature sometimes reduced to the reactionary or the apolitical.

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