Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?
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超越危机：过渡到更美好的世界？
作者：
Ien Ang
摘要 2020 年的 COVID-19 危机不仅仅是一场短期公共卫生紧急事件。相反，它暴露了由新自由主义资本主义霸权秩序的内在紧张和矛盾所产生的更广泛、更深层次的有机危机。我讨论这场有机危机，因为它在各个层面——阶级、种族、民族、文化——上人类分裂的积极放大，这阻碍了以“共同人类”的名义产生团结与合作，而人类要想彼此之间以及与地球和谐相处，就需要团结与合作。通过反思实现这一美好未来的各种障碍，从人类激情的侵蚀作用到中国与西方之间不断升级的新冷战，再到气候变化的生存挑战所暴露的根本分歧，我认为，为了有机会实现一个宜居和公平的共同未来，我们需要保持批判性的世界视野，反对构成有机危机的自利封闭和排斥。
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 is not just a short-term public health emergency. Instead, it has laid bare a broader and deeper organic crisis, produced by the intrinsic tensions and contradictions of the hegemonic neoliberal capitalist order. I discuss this organic crisis in terms of its active amplification of human divisiveness at various levels – class, racial, national, cultural – which impedes the generation of solidarity and cooperation in the name of a ‘common humanity’, required if humans are to live in harmony among each other and with the planet. By reflecting on a diverse range of barriers to such a desirable future, from the erosive role of human passions to the escalating new cold war between China and the West and the fundamental divisions exposed by the existential challenge of climate change, I argue that to have a chance of a liveable and equitable common future, we need to maintain a critical cosmopolitan horizon against the grain of self-interested closures and exclusions which underpin the organic crisis.