Spatializing Difference beyond Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Planetary Futures
Spatializing Difference beyond Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Planetary Futures
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超越世界主义的空间差异：重新思考行星的未来
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10.1177/0263276411410447
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2011
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T. Jazeel
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本文发展了一个批判性的参与与“世界主义”，特别是它所蕴涵的地理想象。它这样做是为了通过新的世界主义文学中的一些地理封闭，并进一步提出替代性的-更不确定和投机性的-空间想象与激进的他性一起生活的模式。本文是在最近的文学财富的背景下写的，这些文学试图恢复世界主义作为一种进步的政治哲学和想象力。然而，这篇论文的部分干预是为了表明，通过走出世界主义的概念阴影，共同生活的机制和政治想象实际上可能会获益匪浅。首先，本文认为，在许多新的世界主义文学中，隐含着一种在西方思想中有着悠久历史渊源的行星意识。本文强调了行星地理想象嵌入公开世界主义话语中的问题纹理，认为世界主义的“宇宙”在地理上并不是无辜的能指。事实上，它被束缚在一个帝国阿波罗式的凝视中，这不禁重新点燃了古希腊的形式秩序和美的概念，毕达哥拉斯对和谐宇宙的信仰，以及它们在西方自由主义，特别是美国冷战帝国主义中的实现。第二，借鉴后殖民主义的重新解读的星球和关键的地理动员的地方，本文提出了替代，不太确定，不太公开的“世界主义”的想象力，有能力从事非同化的条款差异。累积起来，这篇论文试图回答一个简单的问题：从地理上思考世界主义有什么不同？
This paper develops a critical engagement with ‘cosmopolitanism’ and specifically the geographical imaginations it implicates. It does so in order to work through some of the geographical closures in the new cosmopolitanism literature and, further, to suggest alternative — more uncertain and speculative — spatial imaginations for modes of living together with radical alterity. The paper is written in the context of the wealth of recent literature that has sought to recuperate cosmopolitanism as a progressive political philosophy and imagination. Part of the paper’s intervention, however, is to suggest that mechanisms and political imaginations for living together might in fact gain much by stepping out from cosmopolitanism’s conceptual shadow. First, the paper argues that implicated within much of the new cosmopolitan literature is a planetary consciousness that has a long historical antecedence in western thought. The paper stresses the problematic textures of the planetary geographical imaginations embedded within avowedly cosmopolitan discourse, arguing that the ‘cosmos’ of cosmopolitanism is no geographically innocent signifier. It is in fact tethered to an imperial Apollonian gaze that cannot help but rekindle ancient Greek notions of formal order and beauty, Pythagorean beliefs in a universe of harmony, and their realization in western liberalism and particularly US Cold War imperialism. Second, drawing upon postcolonial re-readings of the planet and critical geographical mobilizations of place, the paper suggests alternative, less certain, and less avowedly ‘cosmopolitan’ imaginations that have the capacity to engage difference in non-assimilatory terms. Cumulatively, the paper is an attempt to answer one simple question: what difference does it make to think geographically about cosmopolitanism?