“地球化”:气候与递归性

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
D. Woods
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摘要

摘要:地球化最初是一种让其他行星变得像地球一样的幻想,然后回到地球,作为人类对地球已经做过、正在做或将要做的事情的框架。对于“地球化”这个短语的解读,我把它分析成三种形式的递归:形式的、历史的和生态的。这个三环分析阐明了科幻小说和当代文化中的例子:h·g·威尔斯的小说《世界大战》,金·斯坦利·罗宾逊的小说《绿色火星》,以及埃隆·马斯克改造火星的愿望。西尔维娅·温特的政治理论提供了一种概念化改造的方法,根据那些有和没有获得最佳免疫生态系统的人与那些有和没有对地球系统有代理的人之间的区别。我得出了关于地球化的尺度特异性和政治含义的结论,特别是对于理解人类世的主体形成。
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“Terraforming Earth”: Climate and Recursivity
Abstract:Terraforming began as a fantasy about making other planets earthlike, then returned to earth as a frame for what humans have done, are doing, or will do to the planet. Toward a reading of the phrase “terraforming earth” that would prove fruitful for criticism and theory, I analyze it into three forms of recursivity: formal, historical, and ecological. The three-loop analytic illuminates examples from science fiction and contemporary culture: H.G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Green Mars, and Elon Musk’s desire to terraform Mars. The political theory of Sylvia Wynter offers a way of conceptualizing terraforming in terms of the difference between those who do and do not have access to optimal, immunized ecosystems and those who do and do not have agency over the earth system. I draw conclusions about terraforming’s scale-specificity and political implications, especially for understanding subject-formation in the Anthropocene.
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