Multiple Arts: The Muses II 9781503618923

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MULTIPLE ARTS

MERIDIAN

Crossing Aesthetics

Werner Hamacher

Editor

Edited by Simon Sparks

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California 2006

MULTIPLE ARTS The Muses II

Jean-Luc Nancy

The essays included in this volume are translated and published by arrangement with Editions Galilee,© Editions Galilee. "Sources," on p. 249, lists original publication details.

Stanford University Press Stanford, California English translation © 2006 by the Board ofTrustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nancy, Jean-Luc. [Selections. English. 2006] Multiple arts : the muses II I Jean-Luc Nancy; edited by Simon Sparks. p. em. - (Meridian) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN o-8047-3953-6 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN o-8047-3954-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) r. Aesthetics. 2. Arts-Philosophy. I. Sparks, Simon, I970- II. Tide. III. Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) B2430.N362E5 2oo6 70o'.I-dc22 20050I3559

Contents

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Acknowledgments PART I:

LITERATURE

I

Making Poetry

2

Taking Account of Poetry

10

3

Around the Notion of Literary Communism

22

4

He Says

35

5

Vox Clamans in Deserto

38

6

Paean for Aphrodite

50

7

Les Iris

61

8

On Writing: Which Reveals Nothing

70

9

Roger Laporte: The Page

78

10

In Blanchot's Company

82

II

On Blanchot

85

12

Deguy l'An Neufl

89

13

The Necessity of Sense

109

14

Ja, Bes

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15

Robert Antelme's Two "Phrases"

126

3

Contents

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PART II:

ART

16

Georges

131

17

Catalogue

143

18

Interviews

159

19

Res Extensa

166

20

Lux Lumen Splendor

171

21

Held, Held Back

175

22

The Tide's a Blank

181

23

The Technique of the Present: On On Kawara

191

24

The Soun-Gui Experience

207

25

The Look of the Portrait

220

Sources

249

Notes

253

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all those involved in the preparation of this volume. First, the other translators: Miguel de Beistegui, Jonathan Derbyshire, James Gilbert-Walsh, Sara Guyer, Leslie Hill, Hector Kollias, and Damon McCarthy, not merely for agreeing to undertake the almost impossible task of translating some of Nancy's least translatable essays, but for their graciousness in the face of my often excessive editorial intrusions. In particular, I would like to thank Miguel de Beistegui and Leslie Hill for their readiness to offer instant clarification on numerous points. Next, I wish to thank those artists who have generously allowed their works to be reproduced here: Lucile Bertrand, Susanna Fritscher, Guerrero, On Kawara, Soun-Gui Kim, Fran