Resource Extraction and Melville’s Extracts

Q2 Arts and Humanities Leviathan (Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/lvn.2023.0008
J. Insko
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Abstract:Informed by recent work in the Energy and Environmental Humanities, this essay considers two forms of extraction and their literary representations or manifestations: first, material extraction, like the mining of valuable minerals and the various processes for taking fossil fuels from the earth, and secondly, extracts, or the practice of literary extraction, such as copying, excerpting, borrowing, and reproducing. The former, of course, is violent, exploitative, instrumentalist, and, we now know all too well, unsustainable and ultimately self-defeating. The latter, by contrast, is playful, generous, generative, and renewable—and finds its apogee in the “Extracts” that Melville assembles and presents as preface to Moby-Dick. Thinking about these two forms of extraction together, the essay suggests, can help get us beyond conceptualizing extraction and extractivism, the primary causes of our current planetary emergency, only in terms of exhaustion, depletion, and scarcity and their unappealing consequences, austerity, sacrifice, and self-denial.
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《资源提取与梅尔维尔的摘录
摘要:根据能源与环境人文学科最近的工作,本文考虑了两种形式的提取及其文学表现形式:第一,材料提取,如开采有价值的矿物和从地球上获取化石燃料的各种过程;第二,提取,或文学提取的实践,如复制、摘录、借用和复制。当然,前者是暴力的、剥削的、工具主义的,而且,我们现在太清楚了,是不可持续的,最终会弄巧成真。相比之下,后者是有趣的、慷慨的、有创造力的、可再生的——在梅尔维尔收集并作为《白鲸》序言的“摘录”中,它达到了顶峰。这篇文章认为,把这两种形式的开采放在一起思考,可以帮助我们超越提炼和开采主义的概念,这是我们当前地球紧急状况的主要原因,只有在枯竭、枯竭和稀缺以及它们令人不愿接受的后果、紧缩、牺牲和自我否定方面。
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Leviathan (Germany) Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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