Immanent Politics: Thinking Race and Ethnicity through Affect and Machinism
Immanent Politics: Thinking Race and Ethnicity through Affect and Machinism
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内在政治：通过情感和机械主义思考种族和民族
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2010
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Jason Lim
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Jason Lim
在这篇文章中，我试图通过德勒佐-加塔塔关于情感和机械论的概念来重新思考种族和民族性。在机械论的背景下考虑，情感可能被认为不仅是差异和偶然性的保障，而且同时提供了将身体组织成适当关系的可能性。我建议将虚拟理解为不纯粹的，充满了潜在功能的捆绑，这种理解允许我们从虚拟记忆和情感的初始组织的角度来设想种族和民族。我还认为，从情感的角度来思考种族和民族，需要一种机械论的理论化。因此，必须从历史上特定的社会材料组合的角度来考虑种族和族裔问题，这些社会材料组合既是实践的，也是富有成效的。在这些见解的基础上，并从伊丽莎白·格罗兹的著作中获得灵感，我提出了一个反种族主义政治的愿景，它通过其他方式追求正义，而不是承认或抵抗的政治。相反，我建议反种族主义斗争需要利用为情感、主观性和行动创造条件的潜意识和超意识力量。这是一种寻求将欲望从其特定的历史组织中解放出来的政治，但它关注自己对种族主义和民族化倾向的再投资。
In this paper, I attempt to rethink race and ethnicity through Deleuzo–Guattarian conceptions of affect and machinism. Considered in the context of a theorisation of machinism, affect might be thought of as not only underwriting difference and contingency, but as simultaneously affording the potential for bodies to be organised into proper relations. I suggest an understanding of the virtual as impure, full of bundles of potential functions, an understanding that allows us to envisage race and ethnicity in terms of virtual memory and the incipient organisation of affect. I also argue that thinking of race and ethnicity in terms of affect requires a theorisation of machinism. Race and ethnicity thus have to be considered in terms of historically specific sociomaterial assemblages that are at once practised and productive. Building upon these insights, and taking inspiration from the writings of Elizabeth Grosz, I propose a vision of an antiracist politics that pursues justice by other means than a politics of recognition or resistance. Instead, I suggest that antiracist struggles need to harness the subliminal and superliminal forces that produce the conditions for affect, subjectivity, and action. This is a politics that seeks to free desire from its historically specific organisation, but which attends to its own reinvestment in racialising and ethnicising tendencies.