韧性的寓言:充满希望的悲观主义,奥克塔维亚·巴特勒的“目的”,以及世界的创造

IF 1.9 3区 社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI:10.1177/14647001231202134
Alix Olson
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适应力是当代社会和政治生活的开创性救星。政治家、科学家、自助专家、公立学校管理者、军事官员和心理学家越来越多地将恢复力建设作为应对21世纪前所未有的不确定性的唯一理性解决方案。韧性的潜在(悲观的)承诺是,人类,乃至全球体系,不仅能够在危机中生存下来,而且能够蓬勃发展。为了强调这种逻辑带来的物质、意识形态和政治危险,我研究了NASA/SpaceX的星际殖民计划——一个明确旨在促进人类物种恢复的项目——作为悲观主义的毁灭性结局。尽管有这种可怕的轨迹,我还是考虑了左翼女权主义思想家和活动家将弹性概念降低到新自由主义权力技术的成本。为此,我认为奥克塔维亚·巴特勒预言性的双联画《撒种者的寓言》(1993)和《天才的寓言》(1998)对抗了充满希望的悲观主义的殖民计划,并恢复了对弹性的解放描述:它拒绝以乌托邦式的保证换取对权力的默认,但它将现在恢复为转型的实践基地。最后,本文坚持认为,在危机不断升级的共同背景下,参与关于如何治理我们自己和我们的世界的政治斗争,需要在伦理和政治含义上进行持续的关键投资,以使某些类型的弹性生命增值。
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Parables of resilience: Promising pessimism, Octavia Butler's ‘purpose’, and the making of worlds
Resilience is the trailblazing saviour of contemporary social and political life. Politicians, scientists, self-help experts, public school administrators, military officials, and psychologists increasingly tout resilience-building as the only rational solution to a twenty-first-century world of unprecedented uncertainty. The underlying (pessimistic) promise of resilience is that people, and by extension global systems, can not only survive but flourish through crisis. In order to underscore the material, ideological and political danger that this logic poses, I examine NASA/SpaceX's plans for interplanetary colonisation – a project explicitly intended to promote a resilient human species – as promising pessimism's devastating finale. Despite this dire trajectory, I conclude by considering the cost for left feminist thinkers and activists of reducing the concept of resilience to a neoliberal technology of power. To this end, I contend that Octavia Butler's prophetic diptych Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) counters the colonising project of promising pessimism and recovers a liberatory account of resilience: one which refuses to exchange utopian surety for acquiescence to power, but which recuperates the present as a practice ground for transformation. Ultimately, this article insists that to engage in political struggle over how to govern ourselves and our world, in a shared context of escalating crises, requires sustained critical investment in the ethical and political implications of valorising certain kinds of resilient life.
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期刊介绍: Feminist Theory is an international interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminism. Theoretical Pluralism / Feminist Diversity Feminist Theory is genuinely interdisciplinary and reflects the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances.
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