SENSIBILITY AND SEMIO-CAPITALISM – A BODILY EXPERIENCE OF CRISIS IN URSULA ANDKJÆR OLSEN’S THE CRISIS NOTEBOOKS

Q3 Arts and Humanities Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Pub Date : 2020-11-22 DOI:10.7146/nja.v29i60.122845
Emma Sofie Brogaard Jespersen
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In The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (2012), Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi unfolds a political and clinical diagnosis of contemporary society, stating that the crisis we experience today is a permanent state of absent social autonomy and political agency. This crisis is not solely economic but is caused by semio-capitalism impacting all spheres of human life, affecting sensibility in particular—the linguistic and physical-sensuous link between the individual and the world. Taking up the term sensibility as a bodily basis of experience and as an aesthetic notion, in this article I will explore the relation between individual and collective bodies, the crisis as a suspension of change, and literature, focusing on the Danish poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s 2017 lunatic and fragmented novel of love and economy The Crisis Notebooks, but also with reference to some of her other work(s). I argue that the bodily experience of crisis, as expressed in this novel, leads to an inhibited social sensibility but also, paradoxically, to a radical openness towards the world. With reference to the Danish literary scholar Anne Fastrup’s interpretation of French vitalism’s idea of sensibility in The Movement of Sensibility (2007), I suggest that a more ambiguous, material notion of both a constructive and a destructive sensibility is crucial for its understanding, and hence—for an understanding of the relationship between body and crisis as expressed in The Crisis Notebooks. Finally, I suggest that an aesthetic notion of sensibility can provide a prism through which relations between today’s financial mechanisms and a sociocultural experience of crisis are rendered visible—if not sensuous—and it is from here that alternatives to the crisis can be found, felt, formulated or fabulated.
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感性与半资本主义——乌苏拉andkjÆr奥尔森危机笔记中的一种对危机的身体体验
在《起义:论诗歌与金融》(2012)一书中,弗朗哥·“比佛”·贝拉尔迪对当代社会进行了政治和临床诊断,指出我们今天所经历的危机是一种长期缺乏社会自治和政治机构的状态。这场危机不仅是经济上的,而且是由影响人类生活各个领域的半资本主义造成的,特别是影响了个人与世界之间的语言和身体感官联系。在本文中,我将把“感性”一词作为经验的身体基础和审美概念,探讨个体和集体之间的关系,作为变化暂停的危机,以及文学,重点关注丹麦诗人厄休拉·奥尔森(Ursula andkk ær Olsen) 2017年疯狂而支离破碎的爱情和经济小说《危机笔记》(the crisis Notebooks),但也参考了她的一些其他作品。我认为,正如这部小说所表达的那样,对危机的身体体验导致了一种压抑的社会情感,但矛盾的是,也导致了对世界的彻底开放。参考丹麦文学学者安妮·法斯特鲁普(Anne Fastrup)在《感性运动》(2007)中对法国活力主义感性思想的解释,我认为一个更模糊、更物质的建设性和破坏性感性概念对于理解它至关重要,因此对于理解《危机笔记》中所表达的身体与危机之间的关系至关重要。最后,我认为感性的美学概念可以提供一个棱镜,通过这个棱镜,今天的金融机制和危机的社会文化经验之间的关系被呈现出来——如果不是感性的——并且从这里可以找到、感觉、制定或虚构危机的替代方案。
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