Spectacle, speculative, spectile: situations in Sarah Kane, Sevim Burak, etc
Date
2010-07Source Title
Third Text
Print ISSN
0952-8822
Electronic ISSN
1475-5297
Publisher
Routledge
Volume
24
Issue
4
Pages
437 - 444
Language
English
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Abstract
Reconsidering the Situationist texts, mainly Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, this article attempts to produce distinctions between the spectacle, the speculative and the ‘spectile’ via a reading of Deleuzian insistence that immanence should be created. Zigzagging between the texts of Sarah Kane and Sevim Burak, we suggest the urgency of ‘the spectile’ within the Deleuzian concept of ‘becoming‐woman’ if an immanence, including both arts and art criticism, is not to yield to a transcending transcendental; if criticism is to produce an immanence that is only immanent to itself.
Keywords
SpectileSpectacle
Situationists
Hyperbole
Sarah Kane
Sevim Burak
Guy Debord
Détournement
Somnambulism
Criticism