The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LITERATURE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1215/00104124-9722350

R. A. Judy

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Offering an itinerary of the thinking that led to Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black, R. A. Judy explains the concept of “poetic socialities” mentioned in it. This explanation begins with an account of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers’ reception of Aristotle’s Poetics, focusing on ibn Sīnā’s conception of the role poetic expression’s cognitive as well as affective force plays in the instantiation of what he calls الأمة الشعرية (al-umma al-sh’irīya), “the poetic or aesthetic community.” Elaborating how and why the phrase poetic socialities is the paraphrastic translation of ibn Sīnā’s, the essay tracks the study of poetic socialites from its initial formulation regarding the 2010 Tunisian Revolution to it becoming the reference point of orientation for an interrogation of the modern concepts of sovereignty, revolution, and civic republicanism. With respect to these concepts, the study of poetic socialities enacts a critique of imperial neoliberal tendency of socialization; whereby the only tenable norm of general subjectivity is a function of speculative market value as the absolute measure not just of human progress but existence as well. Along these lines, poetic socialities is an attempt at understanding something of what is at play in te current era of popular unrest.

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抗议的诗学，从非洲到明尼阿波利斯

R. A. Judy在《有情的肉体:无序的思考》(Poiēsis in Black)中提供了一段思考的旅程，解释了其中提到的“诗意社会”的概念。这一解释始于对穆斯林流浪哲学家接受亚里士多德《诗学》的叙述，重点关注伊本·桑努伊关于诗歌表达的认知和情感力量在他所谓的الأمة الشعرية (al-umma al-sh ' ir ya)的实例化中所起作用的概念，即“诗歌或美学共同体”。这篇文章详细阐述了“诗意社会”一词是如何以及为什么是对伊本·桑努伊的意译，并追踪了诗意社会的研究，从它最初关于2010年突尼斯革命的表述，到它成为对主权、革命和公民共和主义等现代概念的质疑的参考点。就这些概念而言，诗性社会的研究是对帝国新自由主义的社会化倾向的批判;因此，普遍主体性的唯一站得住脚的规范是投机市场价值的功能，它不仅是人类进步的绝对尺度，也是人类存在的绝对尺度。沿着这些思路，《诗意的社会》试图理解当前这个动荡不安的时代正在发生的事情。

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期刊介绍： The oldest journal in its field in the United States, Comparative Literature explores issues in literary history and theory. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and critical approaches, the journal represents a wide-ranging look at the intersections of national literatures, global literary trends, and theoretical discourse. Continually evolving since its inception in 1949, the journal remains a source for cutting-edge scholarship and prides itself on presenting the work of talented young scholars breaking new ground in the field.