期刊刊名：修平人文社會學報 　 卷期：17期

篇名出版日期：2011年9月1日

作者：Yu-chi Chiang,蔣裕祺

語言：English

關鍵字：Lawrence, Deleuze, plane of immanence,羅倫斯,德勒茲,內在性的層次

被點閱次數：10次

閱讀時間：470sec

摘要：
David Lean's epic movie Lawrence of Arabia has enchanted generations of audience ever since 1962 for many of its accomplishments, ranging from its memorable cut, the matchstick, to philosophical lines such as “Nothing is written” or “[The desert] is clean here.” When they are crossing the Nefud Desert, God's anvil, the camel-riding Lawrence, is cautioned by Ali not to be “drifting.” The then “thinking” Lawrence is like an unlocatable nomad on Deleuze’s virtual plane of immanence. His living identity is not something bound in well-defined categories; instead, it inheres as a pure, yet-to-be-actualized singular event engulfed in an indefinite between-time. Lawrence's pure becomings, irrespective of habit and memory, are being played out in incessant repetitions like a dice throw, only to arrive at a different “broken, dissolved self.”This paper proposes to read Lawrence of Arabia in the light of Deleuzian concepts of difference and repetition. It examines the relationship between identity or doxa of habitual configurations in the realms of reactive representations on the one hand, and, on the other, self-losing identity that is constantly in the making, constituted by a singular flow of percepts and affects in the active, creative and pre-representational realms. With detailed study of Lean's cinematic text/ure, this paper will address the problem why Lawrence deviates from his Englishness to becoming Arab.

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