Autumn of the System: Poetry and Financial Capital
Autumn of the System: Poetry and Financial Capital
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制度之秋：诗歌与金融资本
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2011
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Joshua Clover
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如果说金融在资本积累循环中的支配地位总是一个“秋天的标志”，那么我们似乎终于到了冬天的开始（布罗代尔，246）。从2006年左右开始加速并在2007-2008年期间全面表现出来的全球经济崩溃中，人们肯定会怀疑这一点。[1]当然，如果这确实是一个积累周期的终结，在某种程度上就像大英帝国的终结（或者联合省或意大利城邦的终结），那么每一个这样的结论在其细节上总是不同的。要提出这一结局的形式或意义是什么，那就太冒昧了，更不用说向下一个周期过渡的性质或下一个周期本身的性质了。我们可以说，想象这个序列的问题是我们历史时刻的基本叙事问题。但这与说历史时刻的基本问题本质上必然是叙事性的截然不同。在开始发展一种关于冬天的思想时，现在就想知道：那么我们可以对秋天的文学说些什么呢？我的意思是问，什么形式将被证明是最适合把握仍然神秘和难以捉摸的政权，骑美国霸权下降的轮廓
If the reign of finance in the cycle of capital accumulation is always a “sign of Autumn,” we seem finally to have arrived at the onset of Winter (Braudel 246). Or so one must suspect from the collapse of the global economy that began its run-up around 2006 and manifested itself in full over the course of 2007–2008. Whether this crisis is terminal remains a matter of open debate.1 Certainly if this is indeed the end of a cycle of accumulation, in some way like the end of the British Empire (or that of the United Provinces or the Italian city-states), each such conclusion is always different in its particulars. It would be presumptuous to propose what the shape or meaning of this finale might be, much less the nature of the transition to some next cycle or the nature of the next cycle itself. The problem of imagining this sequence, we might say, is the fundamental narrative problem of our historical moment. But this is quite different from saying that the fundamental problematic of the historical moment is necessarily narrative in nature. In beginning to develop a mind of Winter, it does not seem too early to wonder: what then may we say about Autumnal literature? By which I mean to ask, what form will prove to have been best suited to grasp the contours of that still mystifying and elusive regime which rode American hegemony downward