Negative Ecology: Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty at 50

IF 0.2 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

POSTMODERN CULTURE Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI:10.1353/pmc.2020.0011

John Culbert

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay reassesses the significance of Robert Smithson's land art for environmental politics in a time of climate crisis. Drawing on analyses of fossil capital and petrocultures, it argues that Smithson's aesthetics of entropy—particularly as conveyed in the 1970 earthwork Spiral Jetty—provide a valuable dialectical methodology for critical theory in the Capitalocene. The essay proposes a "negative ecology" that can challenge logics of resilience and survival shared by ecologists and extractivists alike.

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负生态：罗伯特·史密森50岁时的螺旋码头

摘要:本文重新评估了罗伯特·史密森的土地艺术在气候危机时期对环境政治的意义。通过对化石资本和岩石文化的分析，本书认为史密森的熵美学——尤其是在1970年的土方工程《螺旋码头》中所传达的——为资本世的批判理论提供了一种有价值的辩证方法论。这篇文章提出了一种“消极生态学”，它可以挑战生态学家和采掘主义者所共有的恢复力和生存逻辑。

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