This article examines Gilles Deleuze’s and Giorgio Agamben’s thoughts on the immanent creativity emergent from formal, impersonal life as a pathway for resistance to biopolitics. In Coldness and Cruelty, Deleuze explores masochism as the inversion of the sadistic, biopolitical use of the body which can bring forth genuinely new expressions. Agamben dismisses masochistic creativity because it leaves the dialectical ontology of biopower intact to conceptualize his form-of-life as a space of indiscernibility between ontological essence and legal-political actualization. For Agamben, the form-of-life escapes biopolitical capture because it is absolutely detached from its relations. This article argues that the radicalness of this detachment calls into question the political capacity offered by the form-of-life to actively change the relations of biopower. Against this background, Deleuze’s masochistic eroticization of power offers an alternative conceptualization of relationality as external to its terms and productive of expressions which are both thoroughly immanent and genuinely creative.

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生物能的色情化：德勒兹和阿甘本的受虐性与抵抗

本文考察了吉尔斯·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）和乔治·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）关于从非正式的非人格化生活中涌现出来的内在创造力的思想，以此作为抵抗生物政治的途径。在《冷酷与残酷》中，德勒兹探讨了受虐狂是对身体的虐待，生物政治使用的颠倒，它可以带来全新的表情。阿甘本否定了受虐狂的创造力，因为它保留了完整的生物权力的辩证本体论，以将其生命形式概念化为本体论本质与法律政治实现之间不可区分的空间。对于阿甘本来说，生命形式逃脱了生物政治的俘获，因为它绝对脱离了它的关系。本文认为，这种分离的激进性使人们质疑生命形式所提供的积极改变生物力量关系的政治能力。在这种背景下，德勒兹的受虐狂性权力化提供了一种替代性的关系概念，作为其术语的外部和富有表现力的表达，这些表达既是内在的，又是真正的创造性的。