A/V#18.05 2014 Spring
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“Looking carefully at this life I remember being dead in it really and corporeally at least 3 times, once in Marseilles, once in Lyons, once in Mexico and once at the Rodez asylum in the coma of electroshock.”
Antonin Artaud “Letter to Peter Watson” 27 July -13 September 1946
In Artaud’s late work we see the relationship between life and death - a relation at times oppositional, at other times unilateral - supersede the comparable relationship between thought and unthought which had dominated his early poetry and the exchange of letters with Jacques Rivière more than twenty years earlier. Whilst the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari deals well with the latter relation, and with the relation of thought and life, their work suffers from an underexposure to the problem of death, both in general and in relation to Artaud in particular. With particular reference to the 1946-8 poem cycle Artaud le Mômo, this paper explores this shortcoming by considering how Deleuze and Guattari mutilate Artaud’s work to bring it in line with their Spinozist and vitalist ontology.
Jon K. Shaw is a Visiting Tutor in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, where he is also completing his Ph.D. His research concerns Antonin Artaud and radical passivity. Jon is founding editor of Rattle: A Journal at the Convergence of Art and Writing, and Assistant Editor on the book series Visual Cultures As… and the journal Culture and Dialogue. Forthcoming publications include “Plane of Immanence” in Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2014) and “Untitled: Retreat from Language in the Titling of Rachel Whiteread” in Polysèmes, the journal of the Société des Amis d’Intertextualité.
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