ABSTRACT
The representation of the text as discrete formation, condensed in a discourse on the mm-iim – a 'utopian' view of the text in quasi-topological terms – must be placed in its dialectical relation with a transformational view. The non-lieu is itself a site within which a Utopian dynamic operates. On the most basic level this corresponds to the truism that semiotic 'juxtaposition', once the juxtaposed elements are read together, gives rise to something other than the sum of their parts. Parole is not the assembly of individual words in an utterance, but their placement under a unifying principle. While the demarcation of the non-lieu is thinkable in terms of a Utopian gesture that makes for a complex space of fragmented, multiple writing – a lieu neutre, in Marin's terms – this apparently countering movement is equally representative of a Utopian dynamic of poetic work.
