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1、ChapterOne:Self-Storage(inTheory)Understandingtheobjectiveconditionsofhisfategavehimthestrengthtoriseaboveit;thestrengthpermittedhim,evenin1940anddoubtlessthinkingofhisdeath,toformulatehisthesesontheconceptofhistory.OnlybysacrificinglifedidBenjaminbecomethespiritthatlivedtheideaofawayoflifew
2、ithoutvictims.--TheodorAdorno,BenjamintheLetterWriter,”inNotestoLiteratureVol.2,(239)Everybookofvalueplayswithitsreaders.--TheodorAdorno,“BibliographicalMusings,”NotestoLiterature,vol.2(25)Sovereignishewhodecidesontheexception.--CarlSchmitt,PoliticalTheology,(5)Thestrangenatureofposthumouspu
3、blicationsistobeinexhaustible.--MauriceBlanchot,"TheLastWord,”inFriendship,(252)1081.BiopoliticsofreadingasHabeasCorpus[WewanttoframethereadingofdeCerteauasadoublereadingandthenextendthatdoublereadingtoFoucault.IntermsofFoucaultwewanttopreservethedoublenessofthearchive,itofferspotentialities
4、evenasevenifitseemsreducedtostate’sauto-archiving.]BringindeCerteauhereasawayofrethinkinghisnotionofreadingassovereigntyinordertomakeourbookintelligibletohistoryofthebookpeople.+Chartier+AgambenequalsBiopoliticsofreadingWeshouldtrytorediscoverthemovementsofthisreadingwithinthebodyitself,whic
5、hseemstostaydocileandsilentbutminesthereadinginitsownway:fromthenooksofallsortsof“readingrooms”(includinglavatories)emergesubconsciousgestures,grumblings,tics,stretchings,rustlings,unexpectednoises,inshortwildorchestrationsofthebody.Butelsewhere,atitsmostelementarylevel,readinghasbecome,over
6、thelastthreecenturies,avisualpoem. Itisnolongeraccompanied,asitusedtobe,bythemurmurofavocalarticulationnorbythemovementofamuscularmanducation. Toreadwithoututteringthewordsaloudoratleastmumblingthemisa“modern”experience,unknownformillennia.Inearliertimes,thereaderinteriorizedthetext;hemadehi
7、svoicethebodyoftheother;hewasanactor. Today,thetextnolongerimposesitsownrhythmonthesubject,itnolongermanifestsitselfthroughthereader’svoice. Thiswithdrawalofthebody,whichistheconditionofits108autonomy,isadistancingofthetext.Itisthereader’shabeascor