“Not a Matter of Form, but a Matter of Force”. Suely Rolnik and the Speech Passion Theory
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences of force that sustain the conceptual apparatus of Suely Rolnik’s work, in order to think a poetics of passive resistance. To this end, an analysis of the biopolitical tradition will first be undertaken, in order to distinguish an immanentist tendency (Foucault, Agamben) from another that links life with alterity (Derrida, Butler, Coccia). This second tendency will then be read from the theory of performativity after deconstruction, in order to propose a genealogy of vulnerable force to be called speech passion theory. Finally, the article frames Rolnik’s affirmative force in this genealogy, and thinks from it the task of politics and poetics as an aesthetic practice beyond the institution of art.
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