For Deleuze, the time of thinking in terms of＂I＂ or ＂sell＂ has already ended. Novelists, according to Deleuze, have already recognized this. What these new novelists have realized is simply the way to elude contro...For Deleuze, the time of thinking in terms of＂I＂ or ＂sell＂ has already ended. Novelists, according to Deleuze, have already recognized this. What these new novelists have realized is simply the way to elude control, a new intuition to develop unidentifiable means of resistance. Who are these novelists？ What struggles have been made in their work for liberation？ In what sense these fictions are revolutionary？ And what does it mean to think as impersonal individuations？ I argue, in this piece of work, that Italo Calvino is one of those novelists, in fictions of whom one might find truthful answers to most of the questions above and trace revolutionary insights of the kind Deleuze implicitly fosters. The ordinary characters or non-characters of Calvino function in a sense as a minor language operating through pages of the fiction. The fact that they are not in focus or not habitually actualized gives them power to resist representation. The elusive force running through the fiction might clearly be read as Deleuze-Guattarian body-without-organs. Accomplishing a reading of this kind requires a machinic thinking. What I attempt in this work is to try to perform such an experimental reading.展开更多
文摘For Deleuze, the time of thinking in terms of＂I＂ or ＂sell＂ has already ended. Novelists, according to Deleuze, have already recognized this. What these new novelists have realized is simply the way to elude control, a new intuition to develop unidentifiable means of resistance. Who are these novelists？ What struggles have been made in their work for liberation？ In what sense these fictions are revolutionary？ And what does it mean to think as impersonal individuations？ I argue, in this piece of work, that Italo Calvino is one of those novelists, in fictions of whom one might find truthful answers to most of the questions above and trace revolutionary insights of the kind Deleuze implicitly fosters. The ordinary characters or non-characters of Calvino function in a sense as a minor language operating through pages of the fiction. The fact that they are not in focus or not habitually actualized gives them power to resist representation. The elusive force running through the fiction might clearly be read as Deleuze-Guattarian body-without-organs. Accomplishing a reading of this kind requires a machinic thinking. What I attempt in this work is to try to perform such an experimental reading.
