Excommunication: La puissance de la creation langagiere contemporaine.

摘要

This thesis broaches the value of contemporary literature as power ( puissance) of language creation. Given that humanism becomes obsolete with the end of the printing press media dominance, and given that contemporary capitalism assigns an economical and recreational role to culture, "literature" is left without any "final criterion" to think its non-economical power. In other words, which intermedial effects of language creation through book form survives humanism while withstanding recreational communication? In the process, the practice of creative writing and its idea are set under a new paradigm. The first chapter explores the relationships between humanism and the printing press based on a concept of fungibility, and it introduces a set of key concepts. The second chapter presents another set of concepts (including vertical gesture), this time in order to think language in terms of ruling power (pouvoir) and virtual power (puissance). Chapter three broaches the idea of "civilizational capitalism" in intermedial terms. Saturation, separation and windowing are considered according to a game/play ethic. Chapter four is about plasticity. Finally, chapters five and six follow two examples---examples of virtual power, those of contemporary French writer Valere Novarina ( Lumieres du corps) and American novelist David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). The theoretical corpus is composed of elements taken, on the one hand, from Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's works (regarding messianic materialism), and on the other hand, from Gilles Deleuze's works. Some ideas are also influenced by Michel Foucault's and Ludwig Wittgenstein's works.;Key words: humanism, humanities, capitalism, Novarina [Valere], Wallace [David Foster], Deleuze [Gilles], Agamben [Giorgio], plasticity, literature, creative writing, creation.