O sorriso insuportável de Bartleby, segundo Slavoj Zizek

Abstract

Bartleby’s I would prefer not to, an insistent and compulsive refusal, makes the character a true revolutionary. This disciplinary denial is not an aestheticizing resistance that keeps him pure and away from the bureaucratic game that contaminates the environment with corrupted transactions etc. This rejection expresses a pure and empty gesture which instead of remain immaculate contaminates the system in question. Bartleby is revolutionary because his violence lies not in the internal space of the established order, but in the law which determines the internal coherence of the system. The present work aims at showing how it is possible to reverse the dominant logic of the post-ideological world for a gesture which is similar to the bartleblyan rejection proposed by Zizek.