乡村起义：乌尔勒贝克和诺里斯的规模问题

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Critique Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI:10.1353/cul.2024.a915447

Roderick Cooke

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摘要：本文讨论了米歇尔-乌尔勒贝克的《塞罗托宁》（2019年）和弗兰克-诺里斯的《章鱼》（1901年）中农民起义被国家权力镇压的影响。在这两部作品中，农民组织与反对他们的更大势力（对胡埃勒贝克来说是欧盟和法国警察；对诺里斯来说是铁路托拉斯和美国元帅）之间的规模差距不仅决定了叙事结果，而且还引发了一系列围绕全球化、男性气质、地方的社会学意义以及自然世界与机械化世界之间关系的问题。两部小说的结尾都可以被解读为对规模的屈服，尽管两位作者以表面上截然相反的视角对待这种屈服。

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Rural Revolt: The Scale Problem in Houellebecq and Norris

Abstract:This article discusses the implications of farmers' insurrections suppressed by state power in Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine (2019) and Frank Norris's The Octopus (1901). In both cases, the disparity in scale between the farmers' organization and the larger forces set against them (the European Union and the French police, for Houellebecq; the railroad trust and U.S. marshals, for Norris) not only dictates the narrative outcome but also animates a set of questions around globalization, masculinity, the sociological meaning of place, and the relationship between the natural and mechanized worlds. Both novels' conclusions can be read as a surrender to scale, although the two authors' perspectives treat that surrender with ostensibly opposed reactions.

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期刊介绍： Cultural Critique provides a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.