ANIMAL REVOLT AND LINES OF FLIGHT IN LUCRETIUS, BOOK FIVE. (December 2020)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- ANIMAL REVOLT AND LINES OF FLIGHT IN LUCRETIUS, BOOK FIVE. (December 2020)
- Main Title:
- ANIMAL REVOLT AND LINES OF FLIGHT IN LUCRETIUS, BOOK FIVE
- Authors:
- Hutchins, Richard
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Lucretius is the first classical author to have written a history of animal resistance. In a fifty-line passage from Book Five of De rerum natura, the 'animal revolt' (5.1297–349), Lucretius describes the rise of empire and its instrumentalization of animals for war. When the animals are led onto the battlefield, however, they swerve against their 'armed teachers and savage masters' (1311). The linear rise of empire, built on the abuse of animals' bodies, is deterritorialized by those same animal bodies in a chaotic scene that takes place on what Monica Gale has called a 'cosmic battlefield'. This paper follows Lucretius' account in Book Five of De rerum natura of the linear rise of empire, its increasing capture of animal life, and the rupture of empire's linear trajectory by a clinamen, or 'swerve', of rebel animals. I compare Lucretius' account of the rise of empire to what Deleuze and Guattari call a 'molar line', and the swerve of rebel animals to Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the 'line of flight'.
- Is Part Of:
- Ramus. Volume 49:Number 1/2(2020)
- Journal:
- Ramus
- Issue:
- Volume 49:Number 1/2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 49, Issue 1/2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 49
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0049-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 133
- Page End:
- 154
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Subjects:
- Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
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http://search.informit.com.au/browseJournalTitle;res=APAFT;issn=0048-671X ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/rmu.2020.8 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0048-671X
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