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AZ: My present project focuses on the question of the end, examining different ways in which this theme appears. From the “end of history” to the “end of the world,” passing through the “end of art,” the “end of ideology,” the “end of grand narratives” . . . which do not suggest the same idea at all. Francis Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man actually marks the opposite of what it seems to suggest, namely, that we have finally reached the end. What it marks is, quite the contrary, the impossibility to end. Namely, the impossibility to end capitalism, or the impossibility for capitalism as we know it to come to an end. If capitalist liberal democracy, as [Fukuyama’s] book suggested, constitutes the end of history, this end can last forever, it can go on forever, it is not the end of the world; it is not subjected to historical time but to its own temporality, in which there are no intrinsic reasons for it to end. It is an end that can go on endlessly, forever. The end itself doesn’t end, we just get stuck in a weird immobility. And I claim that if we look at how the political and cultural landscape functions today, perhaps the shortest way of describing it would be to say that Framing Issues Related to the Digital Unconscious: Interview with Alenka Zupančič
AZ:我现在的项目关注的是结局的问题,研究这个主题出现的不同方式。从“历史的终结”到“世界的终结”,经过“艺术的终结”、“意识形态的终结”和“宏大叙事的终结”。它们根本没有提出相同的想法。弗朗西斯·福山(Francis Fukuyama)的《历史的终结与最后的人》(The End of History and The Last Man)一书实际上与它所暗示的相反,即我们终于走到了尽头。恰恰相反,它标志着不可能结束。也就是说,不可能结束资本主义,或者我们所知道的资本主义不可能结束。如果资本主义自由民主,正如福山的书所建议的那样,构成了历史的终结,那么这种终结可以永远持续下去,它可以永远持续,它不是世界的终结;它不受历史时间的制约,而受其自身的时间性的制约,它的终结没有内在的原因。这是一个可以无休止、永远持续下去的结局。结局本身并没有结束,我们只是陷入了一种奇怪的静止状态。我声称,如果我们看看今天的政治和文化景观是如何运作的,也许最简单的描述方式是说,与数字无意识相关的框架问题:对Alenka ZupančIč的采访