Cinematic Terrorism: Deleuze,ISIS and Delirium

This paper will use the concept of time-image discussed by Gille Deleuze in Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 as a heuristic tool for thinking about the Internet films of the Islamic State (ISIS). By considering that ISIS films primarily operate on two different axes: a time-image that presents a recollection of a mythic past, and a movement-image that reverses roles of power and sovereignty with a Western antagonist through mimesis, I discover that although we are unable to consider the ISIS films strictly as documentary, they are nonetheless not representational either. Within this context, I will argue that ISIS films may be experienced as actualizations of a global schizophrenic delirium. The ISIS films demonstrate what Deleuze describes as the “powers of the false.” They show a reality that is unbearable to witness. In the same way that the Marquis de Sade exhibited in life and fiction a physical violence and perversion that were symptomatic of the chaotic and brutal realities of the French Revolution, ISIS itself, and not only its film productions, becomes the foci of a symptomatic and cinematic realization of the failures of our globalized society in the post-Cold War/Arab Spring era. We experience the unbearable violence in the form of schizophrenic delirium, as if this violence is being performed somewhere else, by someone else, to someone else. These forms of spatial and temporal shifts, detachments, and interchanges are emphasized by the arrival of war refugees to the Western world from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In this process of becoming the Other, there is no escaping the delirium of Otherness.     

女性与色情：安杰拉·卡特笔下的萨德

通过阅读萨德的作品,安杰拉·卡特认识到性与权力关系和社会现实之间的密切关系.在此认识的基础上,她试图创造某种介于严肃文学与通俗色情文学之间的文体,并使用这种“道德的色情文学”表达女性主义的理念.对萨德创作精神的充分理解和批判宣告了卡特创作成长期的结束及其创作成熟期的开始,并为她塑造全新的女性人物形象提供了启示.     

色情文学：越界的想象与迷恋——苏珊·桑塔格论色情小说

古今中外,“色情”饱受非议,乃至遭到抛弃。而在正统文学中,它要么根本不被看作文学,要么被打上否定或负面的标签。桑塔格却发现了色情文学其实是文学的一种——与色情作品不同,色情文学本身包含了较多的思想性和拓展性因素。同时,借助于萨德和巴塔耶对色情小说的研究,桑塔格发现了色情文学的重要价值,也赞赏了他们在人类意识和思想的可能性之开拓方面所做出的努力。当然,桑塔格并非要引发一种色情实践或色情泛滥。毋宁说,桑塔格实际上是想告诉人们：我们需要直面“色情”和“色情文学”本身。只有如此,我们才能不被道德判断阻隔自己的眼界,不被外物迷惑和干扰自己的判断,也才能发现色情文学的真正价值和意义。事实上,在桑塔格看来,色情文学既是越界和超越性想象,也是自由的象征。     

萨德论

萨德的时代是一个血腥和混知己的时代；萨德的人生是一个天才和精神病患者的混合体在监狱中的旅行；萨德的文学是千篇一律的色狼和牺牲于色狼下的无辜者的故事。