A New Expansion: Climate Change, Posthumanism, and the Utopian Dimension in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.5325/utopianstudies.34.2.0273
M. K. Booker
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abstract:Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) is set in twenty-third-century Thailand, in a world in which climate change and the depletion of the oil supply have led to a collapse of the global economic system. Disease and famine are rampant. And yet, in this seemingly postapocalyptic world, there are numerous signs of hope. This text, in fact, contains strong utopian energies, driven partly by the motif of genetic engineering, which suggest the possibility of rebuilding the world in a way that overcomes many of the limitations of the past in terms of the politics of race, gender, and class, but also in terms of more enlightened attitudes toward the relationship between humans and the natural world.
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新的扩张:气候变化、后人类主义和保罗-巴奇加鲁皮《上了发条的女孩》中的乌托邦维度
摘要:保罗-巴奇加鲁皮(Paolo Bacigalupi)的《上了发条的女孩》(2009 年)以 23 世纪的泰国为背景,在这个世界上,气候变化和石油供应枯竭导致全球经济体系崩溃。疾病和饥荒肆虐。然而,在这个看似末世的世界里,却有许多希望的迹象。事实上,这本书包含了强烈的乌托邦能量,部分是由基因工程这一主题驱动的,它暗示了重建世界的可能性,这种方式不仅克服了过去在种族、性别和阶级政治方面的许多局限性,而且在人类与自然世界的关系方面也采取了更加开明的态度。
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