At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa
At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa
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在世界的边缘：非洲的边界、领土和主权
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2000
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Steven F. Rendall
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J.;Steven F. Rendall
从哲学的角度来看，全球化可以与海德格尔所说的“巨人”（das Riesige）相比较。因为他所理解的巨人的特征之一是消除了遥远的距离，并且再现了——可以随时产生——陌生而遥远的世界中的日常生活。但对他来说，巨大首先是数量成为一种基本品质。从这个角度来看，巨人的时代是“世界将自己置于一个超越表征的空间，从而将其自身的决定性和独特的历史特征分配给不可估量的事物。”1如果我们将空间性、可计算性和时间性这三个问题置于全球化讨论的中心，并放在它们与表征的关系中，我们就会发现自己回到了当代话语中通常被忽视的两点，尽管费尔南德·布罗代尔已经提请注意 给他们。第一个与时间的多元性有关，我们可以补充一点，与使这些时间性成为可能且有意义的主观性有关。布罗代尔区分了“长期和非常长期的时间性、缓慢发展和不太缓慢发展的情况、快速和几乎瞬时的偏差——
rom a philosophical point of view, globalization might be compared with what Heidegger called “the gigantic” (das Riesige). For among the characteristics of the gigantic as he understood it were both the elimination of great distances and the representation—producible at any time—of daily life in unfamiliar and distant worlds. But the gigantic was for him above all that through which the quantitative became an essential quality. From this point of view, the time of the gigantic was that in which “the world posits itself in a space beyond representation, thus allocating to the incalculable its own determination and unique historical character.”1 If at the center of the discussion on globalization we place the three problems of spatiality, calculability, and temporality in their relations with representation, we find ourselves brought back to two points usually ignored in contemporary discourses, even though Fernand Braudel had called attention to them. The first of these has to do with temporal pluralities, and, we might add, with the subjectivity that makes these temporalities possible and meaningful. Braudel drew a distinction between “temporalities of long and very long duration, slowly evolving and less slowly evolving situations, rapid and virtually instantaneous devia-