Race, Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1086/722383

Kate Rennebohm

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Abstract

This article draws on the thought of Sylvia Wynter to argue that the development of frameworks of race in the early modern period played an essential, if as yet unconsidered, role in the development of modern skepticism. In formulating this history—and taking Stanley Cavell’s conceptualization of skepticism as an important point of reference—this article positions skepticism as both a historical and ongoing nexus for practices and experiences of racialization. Responding to this, I propose a variant of skepticism that I term enforced skepticism, explored here through a reading of Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017). This is a form of skeptical experience that is born not from epistemological doubt but from the violent foreclosures of access to self-expression and a livable world.

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种族、退出和(强制)怀疑主义的出现

本文借鉴了西尔维娅·温特的思想，认为现代早期种族框架的发展在现代怀疑主义的发展中发挥了至关重要的作用，尽管尚未被考虑到。在阐述这段历史的过程中——并将斯坦利·卡维尔对怀疑主义的概念化作为一个重要的参考点——本文将怀疑主义定位为种族化实践和经验的历史和持续联系。对此，我提出了一种怀疑论的变体，我称之为强制怀疑论，在这里通过阅读《逃出绝命镇》(Get Out)一书来探索。Jordan Peele, 2017)。这是一种怀疑论的经验，不是来自认识论上的怀疑，而是来自对自我表达和宜居世界的暴力剥夺。

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