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Uncontrollable mechanisms : Maurice Blanchot's inorganic writing
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Langstaff, Holly (2019) Uncontrollable mechanisms : Maurice Blanchot's inorganic writing. French Studies, 73 (3). pp. 401-415. doi:10.1093/fs/knz130 ISSN 0016-1128.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knz130
Abstract
This article interrogates a thinking of writing as techne that runs decisively through Blanchot’s thought but is yet to be examined in any systematic manner to date. It is well known that Blanchot was an attentive reader of Heidegger, although some have overstated or simplified the influence of the latter on the French writer; his engagement with Heidegger was close and detailed but also tense and adversarial. This article highlights important differences between Blanchot and Heidegger on the relationship between art and technology. It draws attention to mechanical references in fictional and critical work by Blanchot first published between 1949 and 1980, from a telephone call in La Folie du jour to the impact of mass paperback publishing discussed in ‘Les Grands Réducteurs’ and the careful punctuation of ‘Nietzsche et l’écriture fragmentaire’. The final section examines selected fragments from Le Pas au-delà and L’Écriture du désastre and considers how the opposition between nature and culture is complicated by an inorganic fragmentary writing which proliferates like a cancerous cell, with consequences for the human subject.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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Journal or Publication Title: | French Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0016-1128 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 73 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 401-415 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/fs/knz130 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in French Studies following peer review. The version of record Holly Langstaff, Uncontrollable Mechanisms: Maurice Blanchot’s Inorganic Writing, French Studies, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2019, Pages 401–415 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knz130 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 April 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 April 2019 | ||||||||
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