The End of Distance and the End of War

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
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This chapter addresses the potent US utopianism that greeted the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1858. US Americans tethered perfection to new telegraph technology with all the idealism utopia has come to connote but without the spatial or temporal inaccessibility that we traditionally associate with the “no-place” coined by Thomas More in his 1516 Utopia. In most formulations, utopia is set in a far-off land or distant future. Yet for many US Americans, the moment the Atlantic Telegraph Cable was strung across the ocean and Morse code was sent pulsing beneath the waves, this technologically empowered utopian world began to arrive. With an anchoring focus on the Oneida Community, a small religious community that became obsessed with the telegraph’s possibilities for unity among all people and with God, this chapter argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century United States, utopia was not understood as a distant land or future event. Rather, the utopianism of this network imaginary demands a redefinition of utopia as proximate.
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距离的终结和战争的终结
本章论述了1858年大西洋电报电报问世时,美国那种强大的乌托邦主义。美国人将新的电报技术与理想主义乌托邦所隐含的一切联系在一起,但没有我们传统上与托马斯·莫尔在1516年的乌托邦中创造的“无所不在”联系在一起的空间或时间上的不可达性。在大多数表述中,乌托邦被设定在遥远的土地或遥远的未来。然而,对许多美国人来说,当大西洋电报电缆穿过大洋,莫尔斯电码在海浪下脉冲发送的那一刻,这个技术支持的乌托邦世界开始到来。本章以奥奈达社区(Oneida Community)为锚定焦点,这是一个小型宗教社区,沉迷于电报实现所有人与上帝团结的可能性。本章认为,在19世纪中期的美国,乌托邦并不被理解为遥远的土地或未来的事件。相反,这种网络想象的乌托邦主义要求将乌托邦重新定义为近似的。
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