填充与排除:阿甘本生命政治的艺术捕捉机制

Filling and Excluding: The Capture Mechanism of Art in Agamben’s Biopolitics

在生命政治学谱系中,阿甘本是为数不多将生命政治与艺术进行融合阐释的思想家。由艺术解放通往人的解放,是阿甘本生命政治论的隐秘逻辑。在阿氏那里,“景观社会”与“例外状态”是思考当代生命政治施布的关键词。而这两个关键词,分别指向生命政治艺术捕捉的两套机制——填充机制与排除机制。在这两套机制一软一硬的捕捉下,艺术作为生命被塑造和剥离,一部分成为装置,一部分化为虚无。理解两套机制的捕捉伎俩,是讨论艺术乃至人的解放的前置任务。

In the pedigree of biopolitics, Agamben is one of the few thinkers who integrates biopolitics and art.The implicit logic in Agamben’s biopolitics is the evolution from the artistic liberation to human liberation.In Agamben’s view,“the society of spectacle” and “the state of exception” are the key words of contemporary biopolitics directing at two sets of mechanisms with which biopolitics capture arts: filling and excluding.Under these two mechanisms, art as life is portrayed and alienated, and parts of it becomes a device and parts of it becomes nihility.The precondition of discussing the liberation of art and even human being is to understand the technique of capture in these two mechanisms.