{"title":"The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche","authors":"Jackqueline Frost","doi":"10.4000/coma.8294","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the collaborative projects of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and French poet René Char as thematizing an imbrication between two different ends of the world: the end of the colonial world through decolonization and the end of terrestrial life in nuclear war. This connection, I argue, is pursued by Lam and Char through a set of socio-ecological commitments in which the relation between humanity and the earth heralds an apocalyptic vision of planetary crisis. I proceed to my argument by reconstructing Char and Lam’s investments in a political aesthetics of inter-species and earthly habitation, beginning in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, the threat of nuclear destruction transforms the meaning of the earth , especially in Char’s poetics. At the center of my analysis is their collaborative book, Contre une maison sèche , which I read in continuity with late 1960s anti-nuclear struggles. Finally, I suggest that we think formal decolonization and anti-nuclear ecology together as a point of historical reference for the current ecological crisis. What I call “the rumor of the Earth,” after Lam’s 1950 painting, names the possible but as-yet undiscovered forms of inhabiting the Earth and of making new relations at all levels of the general ecology. de mon analyse se trouve leur livre collaboratif, Contre une maison sèche , que je lis dans la continuité des luttes antinucléaires à la fin des années 1960. Enfin, je propose de penser ensemble la décolonisation formelle et l’écologie anti-nucléaire comme point de référence historique de la crise écologique actuelle. Ce que j’appelle « la rumeur de la Terre », d’après le tableau de Lam de 1950, nomme les formes possibles mais encore inconnues d’habiter la Terre et d’établir de nouvelles relations à tous les niveaux de l’écologie générale.","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Continents manuscrits","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8294","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay considers the collaborative projects of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and French poet René Char as thematizing an imbrication between two different ends of the world: the end of the colonial world through decolonization and the end of terrestrial life in nuclear war. This connection, I argue, is pursued by Lam and Char through a set of socio-ecological commitments in which the relation between humanity and the earth heralds an apocalyptic vision of planetary crisis. I proceed to my argument by reconstructing Char and Lam’s investments in a political aesthetics of inter-species and earthly habitation, beginning in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, the threat of nuclear destruction transforms the meaning of the earth , especially in Char’s poetics. At the center of my analysis is their collaborative book, Contre une maison sèche , which I read in continuity with late 1960s anti-nuclear struggles. Finally, I suggest that we think formal decolonization and anti-nuclear ecology together as a point of historical reference for the current ecological crisis. What I call “the rumor of the Earth,” after Lam’s 1950 painting, names the possible but as-yet undiscovered forms of inhabiting the Earth and of making new relations at all levels of the general ecology. de mon analyse se trouve leur livre collaboratif, Contre une maison sèche , que je lis dans la continuité des luttes antinucléaires à la fin des années 1960. Enfin, je propose de penser ensemble la décolonisation formelle et l’écologie anti-nucléaire comme point de référence historique de la crise écologique actuelle. Ce que j’appelle « la rumeur de la Terre », d’après le tableau de Lam de 1950, nomme les formes possibles mais encore inconnues d’habiter la Terre et d’établir de nouvelles relations à tous les niveaux de l’écologie générale.
这篇文章认为古巴艺术家Wifredo Lam和法国诗人ren Char的合作项目是世界两个不同尽头之间的一个主题:通过去殖民化结束的殖民世界和核战争结束的地球生命。我认为,这种联系是拉姆和查尔通过一系列社会生态承诺来追求的,在这些承诺中,人类与地球之间的关系预示着地球危机的末日景象。我通过重建查尔和林在20世纪50年代开始的跨物种和地球居住的政治美学方面的投资来继续我的论点。到20世纪60年代中期,核毁灭的威胁改变了地球的意义,尤其是在夏尔的诗学中。我分析的核心是他们的合作著作《反核之家》(Contre une maison s),这本书是我在20世纪60年代末反核斗争的延续中阅读的。最后,我建议我们把正式的非殖民化和反核生态学结合起来,作为当前生态危机的一个历史参考点。我称之为“地球的谣言”(the rumor of the Earth),以林奕麟1950年的作品命名,命名了可能但尚未被发现的居住在地球上的形式,以及在一般生态的各个层面上建立新关系的形式。“我分析一下我们的生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作,我们的家庭生活协作。”最后,我提出了一个建议,即:将所有的薪金和其他薪金作为交换条件,将所有的薪金和其他薪金作为交换条件,将所有的薪金和其他薪金作为交换条件。从1950年开始,在“地球上的数据”和“地球上的数据”中,有两种可能的形式,一种是“地球上的数据”,另一种是“新的数据”,一种是“新的数据”,一种是“新的数据”,一种是“新的数据”,一种是“新的数据”,一种是“新的数据”,一种是“新的数据”。