《法西斯镜屋中的白武士:搏击俱乐部、禅宗与(重新)建构民族主义的艺术》

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-10-02 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2020.1842475
Jason Bartashius
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大卫·芬奇的《搏击俱乐部》DVD套装中包含了一系列评论,作为对最初批评的反驳。以佛教寓言的形式呈现故事,是一种反击对影片对待法西斯主义方式的批评的手段。这种辩护依赖于东方主义者对佛教作为非暴力宗教的理解。然而,本文认为《搏击俱乐部》可以被解读为包含了日本佛教军国主义和白人至上主义的典故。在描述准军事组织“混乱计划”(Project Mayhem)形成的一个关键场景中,首先描绘了一个禅宗寺院的仪式,用来接纳新成员,然后用美国观众熟悉的画面驯化民兵,这与白人民族主义产生了密切的共鸣。与此平行的是,导演们在最近的采访中改变了他们之前的策略,要么干脆忽略叙事的佛教内涵,要么证实另类右翼对“雪花”一词的滥用。“雪花”是佛教对无常的隐喻。
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White Samurai in a fascistic house of mirrors: Fight Club, Zen and the art of (Re)constructing ethno-nationalism
ABSTRACT Included in the DVD package of David Fincher’s Fight Club are running commentaries that function as rebuttals to initial criticism. Presenting the narrative as a Buddhist parable was a means to counter critiques of the film’s treatment of fascism. This defence was dependent on an Orientalist understanding of Buddhism as a non-violent religion. However, this paper argues that Fight Club can be read as containing allusions to both ethnocentric Japanese Buddhist militarism and white supremacy. One pivotal scene portraying the formation of the paramilitary organisation Project Mayhem first depicts a Zen monastic ritual employed to accept new members before domesticating the militia with imagery familiar to US viewers that resonates closely with white nationalism. Paralleling this trajectory, the auteurs, in recent interviews have reversed their previous strategy to either simply ignore the narrative’s Buddhist connotations or validate the alt-right’s misappropriation of the term ‘snowflake,’ a Buddhist metaphor for impermanence.
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