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Negative Potentiality and Aesthetics of Interruption : Agamben’s Bartleby
초록
영어
The main aim of this paper is to examine the concept of Bartleby’s negative potentiality, which characterizes Bartleby’s formula, “I’d prefer not to∼” and to explore how this concept is closely related to Agamben’s main concepts such as pure means or means without end; divine violence, which he borrowed from Walter Benjamin; state of exception; and profanation. This paper also aims at how the aesthetics of interruption is working behind all of these concepts. Agamben mentions that Bartleby’s formula of negative potentiality opens a zone of indistinction between yes and no. Bartleby’s formula, he says, works as a redemptive means to fight against the principle of the sovereign power, which creates bare life. First, we will focus on the concept of the aesthetics of interruption. Then, on how Bartleby’s formula works against producing Homo Sacer and bare life. Then we will discuss how Bartleby’s formula works with Benjamin’s concept of messianic history and how it develops into the concept of decreation. Lastly, we will focus on how the aesthetics of interruption is working on Agamben’s idea of pure means and profanation.
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II. 순수한 수단과 중단의 미학
III. 호모 사케르, 벌거벗은 생명, 그리고 바틀비
IV. 부정의 잠재성, 기억과 구원의 역사, 그리고 새로운 탈창조
V. 목적 없는 수단과 세속화 예찬
VI. 결론
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Abstract