New Minor Literatures or the Debt of Contemporary Art

Zsuzsa SELYEM
New Minor Literatures or the Debt of Contemporary Art
Instituția: 
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
Email autor: 
selyemzsuzsa@lett.ubbcluj.ro
Abstract: 

Minor literature is mainly characterized, according to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, by linguistic and political creativity. Contemporary financial ideologies are interested in individualizing the problems shared by many, who otherwise could form communities. I analyze a happening of a contemporary poet and playwright, Krisztián Peer, which, due to a typical frame of capitalism, became an isolated and pathetic manifestation enforcing financial ideologies, although it could have been a strong contemporary act of minor literature.

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