Delusions II: lacerations of a tortured body

Abstract

Roaming some fragments of the poetic itinerary of León Felipe, the present essay intends to analyse the picture, coined by Felipe, of the promethean poet. From the study of the greek term oikonomia, it presents, in an etymological reading, how this term unfolds itself in various images, which, although related, had different uses and consequences in both the configuration of a political community and the generation of the human subject. It also emphasizes how the term oikonomia can be a fundamental operator for the understanding of the image – and with that, also the notion of spectacle, which is so pertinent to the contemporary political setting. It shows how, before the imprisonment of the human’s word – of all logos that enable a political action –, the notion of parable becomes indispensable as a way to resist to cooptation of the word. Finally, from the idea of the promethean poet – and from its repercussions on the aesthetic and ethic fields –, it realizes how it is possible to construct a line of flight to the economic disposition of the human word and human life.