No. 7 (2012)
Estética y Teoría del Arte / Aesthetics and Art Theory

Harlequin. An image of playful aesthetic subjectivity

Portada del número 7 de Bajo Palabra
Published December 30, 2012

Keywords:

Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Game, Deleuze, Foucault
How to Cite
Diaz, S. (2012). Harlequin. An image of playful aesthetic subjectivity. Bajo Palabra, (7), 177–184. https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2012.7.015

Abstract

With a devalued image throughout the historical and scientific tradition, forced to enact the burlesque nature of human customs and trusting the discredited entertainment space, the harlequin presents itself as a figure that allows us to open a new conceptual horizon about subjectivity today. This is to affirm that the mode of subjectivation that the harlequin allows, states the conditions of the existence of a playful aesthetic subjectivity held under the philosophical background of the conceptual expressions of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Deleuze. Indeed, this paper aims, firstly, to establish a brief tour of modernity and its conception with regards to the figure of the harlequin, and on the other hand, (a) parting from nitzschean speculations to think the harlequin as a way of subjectivation that strengthens through laughter, humor and irony, the chances of becoming-other in hierarchical and sedimented settings whose constitution is forced by today’s society. And (b) show that the Harlequin’s expressions are conducive to thinking a mode of playful aesthetic subjectivation, under the model of Deleuzian thought, while heterogeneous subjectivity in that its self-constitutive multiplicity forges indiscernibility spaces, in which play, laughter and festivity open up new ways of life.

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