Among the watchwords of the modernist period, the most radical watchword is that which advocates rupture considering all the correctness of this expression. The free treatment applied by Artaud to what he calls the “pitiful awkwardness of forms” would allow both the use of the violent and ironical graph against the support of representation and the abuse of language by all sorts of changes and violations of syntax. This attempt awakes for a “meticulous infantilization”, so to speak, of the citational, referential and reverential knowing: assumed primitivism in the visual arts; a capricious and tangled play of the sign in the literatures. This essay will focus on two places of claimed formal awkwardness and alteration (Bataille and Artaud) i...