Unconscious Gods and the Return of Belief in Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence

Peter Melville
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Abstract:This article considers the role of belief in Max Gladstone's Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, a six-volume fantasy series that imagines a world in which humanity's gods have either expired or been resurrected in a zombie-like state so that their divine power can be siphoned and used to fuel the social, economic, and technological superstructure of everyday modern life. The article draws on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan, and Alain Badiou to show how Gladstone portrays the return of belief as an effective vehicle for social change that counters a model of atheism in which the individual's supposed liberation from God entails the repression of its continued commitment to what Lacan calls the big "Other," which is to say, the symbolic order itself.
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无意识的神与马克斯·格莱斯顿的工艺序列中的信仰回归
摘要:本文探讨了信仰在马克斯·格莱斯顿的雨果提名作品《工艺序列》中的作用,这是一部六卷本的奇幻系列小说,它想象了一个世界,在这个世界里,人类的神灵要么已经消亡,要么在僵尸般的状态下复活,这样他们的神圣力量就可以被吸走,用来为日常现代生活的社会、经济和技术上层建筑提供动力。这篇文章借鉴了斯拉沃伊Žižek、雅克·拉康和阿兰·巴蒂欧的作品,展示了格莱斯顿如何将信仰的回归描绘为社会变革的有效载体,以对抗无神论的模式,在这种模式中,个人从上帝那里获得的所谓解放,需要压抑其对拉康所谓的大“他者”的持续承诺,也就是说,象征秩序本身。
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Journal of Religion and Popular Culture Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
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