From Hellholes to Hell

IF 0.1 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review Pub Date : 2020-03-11 DOI:10.20901/pm.56.3-4.06

Zoran Kurelić

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Abstract

In this essay the author creates and discusses an interplay of two incommensurable concepts of evil: Hannah Arendt’s radical evil from The Origins of Totalitarianism, and David Lynch’s evil presented artistically as “the bad electricity” in Ronnie Rocket. The first concept is related to Hell which Arendt uses in a few essays and in The Origins... In her opinion the first step towards the pure hell of Auschwitz was made in internment camps for stateless refugees. Giorgio Agamben revisits this idea and shows the link between statelessness and superfluousness. For Arendt the road which started with the inability to solve the refugee problem in Europe ended up in a Hell on Earth created in extermination camps. Agamben believes that spaces of extermination which reappeared on the European continent during the wars in former Yugoslavia demonstrate the grim possibility of recreating Hell in Europe. In his extraordinary script for the unmade film Ronnie Rocket, David Lynch creates a fictional hellhole of a city in which the rulers torture the population with bad electricity. The author discusses these two dramatically different visions of hell in order to show how Arendt’s radical evil when compared to “the bad electricity” can be understood as a production of Hell, and how Lynch’s switching from the bad to good electricity represents a revolutionary change which is simultaneously political and cosmological.

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从地狱到地狱

在这篇文章中，作者创造并讨论了两个不可比较的邪恶概念的相互作用:汉娜·阿伦特在《极权主义的起源》中激进的邪恶，以及大卫·林奇在《罗尼·火箭》中艺术地表现为“坏电”的邪恶。第一个概念与地狱有关，阿伦特在几篇文章和《起源》中使用了这个概念……在她看来，通往纯粹的奥斯维辛地狱的第一步是在关押无国籍难民的拘留营中迈出的。乔治·阿甘本(Giorgio Agamben)重新审视了这一观点，并展示了无国籍与多余之间的联系。对于阿伦特来说，从无力解决欧洲难民问题开始的道路，最终以灭绝营创造的地球地狱告终。阿甘本认为，在前南斯拉夫战争期间，灭绝空间再次出现在欧洲大陆，这表明在欧洲重现地狱的可怕可能性。在尚未完成的电影《罗尼火箭》(Ronnie Rocket)的精彩剧本中，大卫·林奇(David Lynch)虚构了一个地狱般的城市，统治者用糟糕的电力折磨着居民。作者讨论了这两种截然不同的地狱景象，以表明阿伦特的激进邪恶与“坏电”相比如何被理解为地狱的产物，以及林奇从坏电转向好电如何代表了一种革命性的变化，这种变化同时是政治和宇宙学的。

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Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

0.40

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33.30%

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审稿时长

3 weeks

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