Sustaining the unsustainable:: Symbolic politics and the politics of simulation
Sustaining the unsustainable:: Symbolic politics and the politics of simulation
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DOI：
10.1080/09644010701211759
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Bluhdorn, Ingolfur
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作者：
Bluhdorn, Ingolfur
由于对象征性生态政治的主流谴责与先进消费民主国家捍卫民主消费资本主义核心原则的坚定决心之间的矛盾，这一贡献对象征性政治范式进行了元批判。对不同类型的符号政治进行尝试性的类型学分析，为深入分析大众理解中的符号政治绘制了地形。一种全面的文化转变被概念化为后生态学家的转向，它不仅对近代社会框架和处理环境问题的方式的根本转变负有责任，而且对真正的生态政治的枯竭负有责任，这意味着，对仅仅是象征性政治的批评是有问题的。模拟政治的概念被认为是近代生态政治的一个更合适的概念。模拟政治的实践被认为是一种关键的策略，可以帮助现代社会维持已知的不可持续的东西。
Stirred by the contradiction between the mainstreamed castigation of merely symbolic eco-politics and the firm resolve of advanced consumer democracies to defend the core principles of democratic consumer capitalism, this contribution undertakes a meta-critique of the paradigm of symbolic politics. A tentative typology of different varieties of symbolic politics maps the terrain for a detailed analysis of symbolic politics in the popular understanding. A comprehensive cultural shift conceptualised as the post-ecologist turn is held responsible not only for a fundamental transformation of the ways in which late-modern societies frame and process their environmental problems, but also for the exhaustion of authentic eco-politics which, by implication, renders the critique of merely symbolic politics questionable. The concept of simulative politics is suggested as a more appropriate conceptualisation of late-modern eco-politics. Practices of simulative politics are presented as a key strategy which help late-modern societies to sustain what is known to be unsustainable.