Navigating Waves of Capital and History: On Speculation and Submersion in Delany

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1353/sfs.2023.a910325
Spencer Adams
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ABSTRACT: This essay reads two texts by Samuel R. Delany— Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and “Atlantis: Model 1924”—that prominently thematize spontaneous queer encounter and the financialized production of urban space. It explores the writerly practices that open up the subjective space of sexual cultures threatened and eroded by the impersonal forces of capital, highlighting in particular the use of speculative play in “Atlantis,” to suggest it serves as a model for an sf relation to history. In making sense of the contingent conditions lending urgency to Delany’s generic intervention, the essay situates Delany’s writings within the US systemic cycle of capital accumulation, noting the distinct mechanisms of financialized real estate speculation and attendant gentrification that serve to enforce property relations and sexual norms in New York.
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在资本与历史的波浪中航行:论德拉尼的投机与沉没
摘要:本文阅读了塞缪尔·德拉尼的两篇文章——《时代广场红》、《时代广场蓝》和《亚特兰蒂斯:1924模型》,这两篇文章突出地将自发的酷儿相遇和城市空间的金融化生产作为主题。它探讨了作家的实践,这些实践开辟了受到非个人资本力量威胁和侵蚀的性文化的主观空间,特别强调了《亚特兰蒂斯》中投机游戏的使用,表明它是科幻小说与历史关系的典范。为了理解为德拉尼的一般性干预提供紧迫性的偶然条件,本文将德拉尼的著作置于美国资本积累的系统周期中,注意到金融化房地产投机和随之而来的中产阶级化的独特机制,这些机制有助于加强纽约的财产关系和性规范。
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