Planetary Ambitions

J. Armstrong
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This chapter reads Lydie Salvayre's Portrait de l’écrivain en animal domestique (2007). In this novel, Salvayre’s anxieties about allowing oneself—and even herself as author—to be domesticated by the logic of global capitalism are condensed into the pathological relationship between her narrator avatar (who incarnates politically-engaged literature) and the satirical Jim Tobold, the richest man on the planet and ‘uncontested champion of globalization’—a character who, incidentally, bears more than a passing resemblance to Donald Trump. Tobold sees the world at the level of the master, corporate map, from which he can make boardroom decisions in perfect disregard for their harmful, ground-level side effects. This chapter revisits and further explores Bruno Latour on cartographic megalomania, and draws on Fredric Jameson on cognitive mapping, and David Harvey on the self-defeating contradictions of the infinite expansion paradigm of capitalism in a world of increasingly finite resources. Moreover, it develops the Salvaryean notion of the paralipomenon, offering a new perspective on Salvayre’s underlying (engaged) literary strategy, one that, by focusing on the seemingly insignificant details of a hegemonic discourse—such as that of free-market capitalism—reveals its inherent contradictions and flaws.
行星的野心
这一章读的是Lydie Salvayre的《动物的驯养》(2007)。在这部小说中,萨尔瓦雷对让自己——甚至是作为作者的自己——被全球资本主义的逻辑所驯化的焦虑,浓缩在她的叙述者化身(政治参与文学的化身)和讽刺人物吉姆·托博尔德(Jim toold)之间的病态关系中。吉姆·托博尔德是地球上最富有的人,也是“无可争议的全球化捍卫者”——顺便说一句,这个角色与唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)有很多相似之处。托博尔德从企业大局观的角度看世界,他可以据此做出董事会决策,完全不顾这些决策对基层的有害影响。本章回顾并进一步探讨了布鲁诺·拉图尔在制图方面的狂妄自大,借鉴了弗雷德里克·詹姆森在认知制图方面的观点,以及大卫·哈维在资源日益有限的世界中资本主义无限扩张范式的自我挫败性矛盾。此外,它发展了萨尔瓦雷的副现象概念,为萨尔瓦雷潜在的(参与的)文学策略提供了一个新的视角,通过关注霸权话语(如自由市场资本主义)中看似无关紧要的细节,揭示了其内在的矛盾和缺陷。
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