From the experimentum to the collapsus linguae: intersections on the critic in Agamben and Carlito Azevedo

Abstract

Starting from the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy, already present in the Platonic dialogues, this paper aims to investigate how the critical poetry of Carlito Azevedo, in the sense of what Giorgio Agamben conceives as critical, remains on the threshold between the most fundamental experience, which is the poetic language, and the only chance to experience it critically, i.e., without cleaving it.