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AbstrAct Using the carpenter story from the Zhuangzi as a representative anecdote, the article argues that the art of re-contextualization is interological in orientation and transformative in practice. Drawing on the rhetoric of Dao, it further sketches out the discursive affinities between the art of re-contextualization with its focus on "facts of usage" and "facts of non-usage," on the one hand, and the interological sensibility marked by the presence of interbeing and becoming, on the other. The article ends by calling on transcending binary logic and developing new terms of engagement for non-Euro-American rhetorics.
Keywords Facts of usage; Facts of non-usage; Interology; Re-contextualiztion
rÉsUMÉ Cet article se rapporte à la parabole du charpentier selon Zhuangzi comme anecdote pertinente pour soutenir que l'art de la recontextualisation est interologique en orientation et transformatif en pratique. L'article d'autre part a recours à la rhétorique du Dao afin de décrire les affinités discursives entre, d'une part, un art de la recontextualisation mettant l'accent sur les « faits d'utilisation » et les « faits de non-utilisation » et, d'autre part, une sensibilité interologique marquée par la présence de l'interêtre et du devenir. L'article se termine par l'affirmation qu'il faut transcender une logique binaire et trouver une nouvelle manière d'aborder les rhétoriques qui ne sont pas euro-américaines.
Mots cLÉs Faits d'utilisation; Faits de non-utilisation; Interologie; Recontextualisation
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He is to be known as the eternal sannyasi [renouncer]
who neither hates nor desires,
who is indifferent to the pairs of opposites, o Arjuna.
He is easily liberated from bondage.
- The Bhagavad Gita(2009, p. 245)
thus, it might be something (...) that provides the value,
but it is nothing (...) that provides the utility.
- Daodejing(2003, p. 91)
Introduction
This article begins with a story from the Zhuangzi, my representative anecdote, to borrow a term from Kenneth burke (1969). the story is taken from chapter 4, "In the world of Men," of the Zhuangzi, one of the classical texts that emerged during the warring states era (403-221 bce) in ancient china. Zhuangzi (369-286 bce), a daoist philosopher and rhetorician, was part of the emerging literati in one of the most tumultuous and formative periods in chinese history. Although the text bears the author's name, it most...