Weirding Utopia for the Anthropocene: Hope, Un/Home and the Uncanny in Annihilation and The City We Became
Weirding Utopia for the Anthropocene: Hope, Un/Home and the Uncanny in Annihilation and The City We Became
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人类世的怪异乌托邦：希望、不归宿、毁灭中的离奇以及我们成为的城市
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2021
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M. Iossifidis
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L. Garforth;M. Iossifidis
在这篇论文中，我们认为，人类世的条件呼唤并已经在呼唤奇怪的乌托邦。人类世表明，随着人类成为对全球生态系统的主导影响，地质发生了根本性的变化。它还谈到了重大的文化变革，因为个人和社会正在努力让生活在一个新的星球上变得有意义。在这种情况下，绿色乌托邦主义不能通过对未来整体美好社会的预测来说话，也不能参考过去的伦理和政治传统。相反，它必须与世界末日一起工作，并贯穿世界末日。只有彻底古怪的乌托邦主义才能帮助我们理解我们转变后的现实是如何生存的，以及我们如何继续识别和表达对更好的生活方式的渴望。许多当代乌托邦理论摒弃了乌托邦与幸福或决心之间的传统联系，转而强调乌托邦的破坏性作用以及产生疏远和不安的可能性。在这里，我们将这些乌托邦理论进一步推向探索最近两个投机小说中新怪诞的例子中乌托邦欲望的表达：杰夫·范德米尔的《湮灭》和N·K·杰米辛的《我们成为的城市》。借鉴彼得·克拉夫特和苏珊·麦克马纳斯的作品，我们还展开了更广泛的讨论，即奇怪、离奇和怪异的想法如何丰富乌托邦研究中的辩论。
In this paper we argue that Anthropocene conditions call for and are already calling forth weird utopias. The Anthropocene speaks to a fundamental geological shift as humans become the dominant influence on global ecological systems. It also speaks to major cultural transformations as individuals and societies struggle to make sense of living on a new planet. In this context green utopianism cannot speak through projections of a holistically good society into the future, or with reference to ethical and political traditions from what has gone before. It must instead work with and through the end of the world. Only a thoroughly weirded utopianism can help us to understand how our transformed reality might be survivable, and how we can continue to identify and express desires for a better way of living with and in it. Much contemporary utopian theory rejects conventional associations between utopia and happiness or resolution, instead emphasising its disruptive functions and potential to generate estrangement and disquiet. Here we push those strands of utopian theory further to explore expressions of utopian desire in two recent examples of the new weird in speculative fiction: Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, and N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became. Drawing on the work of Peter Kraftl and Susan McManus, we also open up a wider discussion of how ideas of the weird, the uncanny and the unhomely can enrich debates in utopian studies.
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作者：
Davis, Janae;Moulton, Alex A.;Williams, Brian
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Williams, Brian