Dec
14
If the question of the book achieves its greatest radicality in Mallarmé, it is because, more than any other, he wanted to uphold a two-fold requirement: to make the poem into the religion of the future, and simultaneously to refuse all incarnation for his religion of the future or a body of any sort to guarantee the poem, whether that of the subject it represents or of the community it animates.
from Jacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren.