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This essay highlights the centrality of the concept of "incongruity" in Leo Bersani's thinking of ethical relation. It is structured by the incongruous coupling of Eimear McBride's novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and Ellsworth Kelly's paintings, especially Blue Black (2000), as it considers the ethical value of going along with the unwatchable and unreadable (e.g., gender and sexual violence), and with monochromatic abstraction in the context of race. According to Bersani, incongruity is the syntax of undivided being. By looking at ungrammatical literary syntax (McBride) and chromatic oneness (Kelly), the essay argues for ethical alignments absent of predication or congruity as it affirms an antisocial aesthetics of incongruous oneness as opposed to the often-murderous fixation on identity and difference.
摘要：本文强调了 "不协调 "概念在利奥-贝尔萨尼的伦理关系思想中的核心地位。文章以艾米尔-麦克布赖德（Eimear McBride）的小说《女孩是半成品》（A Girl is a Half-formed Thing）和埃尔斯沃思-凯利（Ellsworth Kelly）的绘画作品（尤其是《蓝黑》（2000））的不协调耦合为结构，探讨了在种族背景下，与不可看、不可读（如性别暴力和性暴力）以及与单色抽象画同流合污的伦理价值。贝尔萨尼认为，不协调是不分割存在的语法。通过研究非语法文学句法（麦克布赖德）和色调一体性（凯利），文章论证了没有谓词或一致性的伦理排列，因为它肯定了不协调一体性的反社会美学，而不是往往是致命的对身份和差异的固守。
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