(Dis)铁路连接

IF 0.4 Q1 HISTORY
Adrian Deoancă
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基础设施的政治力量通常归因于其设计功能,而其政治后果仍未得到充分探索。在这篇文章中,我探索民族志废墟的基础设施的力量,通过居住在罗马尼亚的一个有限的铁路段,仍然未恢复多年后,它的崩溃。这种开放式的暂停状态使得基础设施的政治和情感维度被孤立。久尔久-布加勒斯特铁路在2005年的一场特大洪水之后被迫关闭,造成了基础设施的缺口,影响了当地的交通,破坏了后社会主义的社会契约。国家当局和市民采取补救措施,虽然未能恢复交通,但却保持了一种对过去的怀念和对未来的期待。这些策略使铁路成为希望的媒介,同时也成为希望绝对不可能的象征。
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(Dis)Connected Rail
The political force of infrastructures is often attributed to their functioning as designed, while their political afterlives remain underexplored. In this article, I explore ethnographically the phatic force of ruins of infrastructure, by dwelling on a liminal railroad segment in Romania that remains unrehabilitated many years after its breakdown. Such an open-ended state of suspension allows the isolation of infrastructure’s political and affective dimensions. The Giurgiu-Bucharest railroad met its demise in 2005 in the wake of heavy floods, producing an infrastructural gap that impacts local mobility and unravels the postsocialist social contract. State authorities and citizens engage in tactics of remediation that, while unsuccessful in resuming traffic, maintain a sense of phatic connection that kindles nostalgia for the past and frustrates anticipation of the future. These tactics make the railroad a medium for hope and at the same time a symbol for the absolute impossibility of hope.
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