Potere e rappresentazione in Louis Marin: una questione di efficacia semiotica

Power of representation, representation of power. It is with this formula, proper to the rhetorical figure of the chiasm, that Louis Marin frames the relationship between power and representation in their reversibility. In Marin’s aesthetic-political theory, power is read as a reserve of unspent force in signs through the representational device. The aim of our contribution will be to dwell on this relationship and on the central role that studies on enunciation and linguistic acts have played in framing this problem in terms of the efficacy of the sign. It is this relationship between performative utterances and the exercise of power that we will try to account for.