[New-Poetry] Does Poetry Have A Social Function?

[Anny Ballardini]

Was trying to find an answer also to this question, and while reading the following I think there is a way of seeing with which I could agree:


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Finally, Deleuze offers that pure immanence and life will suppose one another unconditionally: "We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing else. [...] A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete bliss [Deleuze, Pure Immanence, p.27]." This is not some abstract, mystical notion of life but a life, a specific yet impersonal, indefinite life discovered in the real singularity of events and virtuality of moments. A life is subjectless, neutral, and preceding all individuation and stratification, is present in all things, and thus always immanent to itself. "A life is everywhere [...]: an immanent life carrying with it the events and singularities that are merely actualized in subjects and objects [Deleuze, Pure Immanence, p.29]."

An ethics of immanence will disavow its reference to judgments of good and evil, right and wrong, as according to a transcendent model, rule or law. Rather the diversity of living things and particularity of events will demand the abstract methods of immanent evaluation (ethics) and immanent experimentation (creativity). These twin concepts will become the basis of a lived Deleuzian ethic.

from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_of_immanence


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the specific question can be asked in this way:

Can creativity meet ethics? Do evaluation and experimentation have a common ground? I do not see why they do not or cannot. 
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