Open Access...Beyond folie à deux...
Author(s) -
Sanja Milutinovic-Bojanic
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1602436m
Subject(s) - inscribed figure , affect (linguistics) , reading (process) , poetry , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , term (time) , literature , sociology , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , psychology , art , mathematics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics
In this text I attempt to recognize and identify two conditions that make engagement possible. One certainly refers to the word, while the other is inscribed onto the body - every or any body - and it regards affect. I illustrate the first condition by a brief reading of a poem by Samuel Beckett, whose English translation the author dedicated to his friend and long-term collaborator, Joseph Chaikin. The second condition I place into Spinoza’s, that is, Deleuze’s understanding of affect