Becoming-Grains of Mercury: Documentary Ecologies, Posthumanism, and the Entanglements of Traumas

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Iluminace Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI:10.58193/ilu.1759
Erica Biolchini
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FĂŠlix Guattari, in his ecosophical work The Three Ecologies, urges us to contemplate and, most importantly, to live transversally with the entangled ecologies of nature and culture/society. Specifically, he states that “it is simply wrong to regard action on the psyche, the socius, and the environment as separate;” particularly, he adds, when it comes to the “simultaneous degradation of the three areas.” Guattari’s transversal process is more accurate than ever if we consider how human activity, in the context of the current geological epoch — the Anthropocene — has sent the Earth’s natural ecosystems into a tailspin; into a course of environmental, social, and psychical post- and pre-traumatic syndrome of entanglements of trauma(s). At this moment, what roles do documentaries play in penetrating the geological scars of the becoming-traumatized Earth? How can they convey our transversal and posthuman understanding of the entanglements of traumas? More specifically, how do we consider the ecological disasters that have already occurred and have yet to occur on Earth as entangled human and non-human traumas, respecting that also the Earth-others have been undergoing a process of traumatization? As the entanglements of the traumatic syndrome are an ongoing, impeding, and imminent processual (and imaginative) catastrophe that has not yet happened, thus proclaiming a condition here defined as “pre-trauma,” how do we re-think trauma through a temporal lens which incorporates the notion of pre-trauma? The proposition of this paper is to transversally think about the entanglements of trauma(s) by initiating a conversation between posthumanism, canonical trauma studies, and contemporary documentary ecologies in order to specifically disclose how it is necessary to radically question and renovate our perspectives on trauma and its temporal dimension(s), finally acknowledging the intermeshed amalgam of our terrestrial existence.
成为汞粒:纪录片生态学、后人文主义和创伤的纠缠
FĂŠlix Guattari在他的生态著作《三种生态》中,敦促我们思考,最重要的是,与自然和文化/社会的纠缠生态横向共存。具体地说,他指出,“把精神、社会和环境的行为分开看待是完全错误的”,特别是当涉及到“这三个领域同时退化”时,他补充说。如果我们考虑到人类活动在当前地质时代——人类世——的背景下是如何使地球的自然生态系统陷入混乱的,那么瓜塔里的横向过程就比以往任何时候都更加准确;进入环境,社会和心理创伤后和创伤前综合症的创伤纠缠的过程。在这个时刻,纪录片在穿透地球地质创伤的过程中扮演着什么角色?它们如何传达我们对创伤纠缠的横向和后人类理解?更具体地说,我们如何将地球上已经发生和尚未发生的生态灾难视为人类和非人类的纠缠创伤,同时尊重地球上其他人也正在经历创伤的过程?由于创伤综合症的纠缠是一种持续的、阻碍的、迫在眉睫的、尚未发生的过程性(和想象性)灾难,因此在这里宣布了一种被定义为“创伤前”的情况,我们如何通过包含创伤前概念的时间透镜重新思考创伤?本文的命题是通过启动后人文主义、典型创伤研究和当代纪录片生态学之间的对话,横向思考创伤的纠缠,以明确地揭示如何有必要从根本上质疑和更新我们对创伤及其时间维度的看法,最终承认我们地球存在的相互交织。
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