Specters of Ruins Haunt a “Total Society” of Postmemorial Reality: A Critique of Neoliberal Modernity
0
조회
0
다운로드
2
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This paper investigates the so-called liberal paradox of post-war American modernity in terms of neoliberal capitalism as we know it. Essential to its critiquing the “America everywhere” Robert Kaplan refers to in his apocalyptic vision of the third world is its ontological antithesis—the ruinous entities of the Other that remain negated, inassimilable, and excluded not just outside of but also within the American empire. The term “ruins,” in this regard, refers to both symbolic and material entities ideologically sublated from the purview of anything falling under the rubric “America,” alluding to the regime of American modernity. Having said that, this paper examines first how theorized the notion of ruins is in the field of cultural criticism. It approaches the cultural implications of ruins as anti-ideological in the dominant culture, to the extent that they emerge from the invisible part of politics against the established social order. The so-called hauntology of ruin value is in fact spectral evidence paving the way for the possibility of what is strictly impossible in the ideological coordinates of reality. This possibility of including the, to cite Costas Douzinas, “part of no part” refers to a critical method of illuminating the socially excluded, politically invisible, and cognitively unrecognizable; it is equivalent to what Badiou refers to as “politics” proper, as collective action to “[overthrow] the rule of the game and [interrupt] the natural order of domination.” Then, this papers shows how the performativity of Americanism, which is, by its essence, spectral with frequency, bears on the liberal paradox of the country’s emancipatory discourse of democracy which, on the one hand, upholds equality and freedom while, on the other, inscribing racial injury in the notion of “one nation” sustaining a multicultural America.
Abstract
This paper investigates the so-called liberal paradox of post-war American modernity in terms of neoliberal capitalism as we know it. Essential to its critiquing the “America everywhere” Robert Kaplan refers to in his apocalyptic vision of the third world is its ontological antithesis—the ruinous entities of the Other that remain negated, inassimilable, and excluded not just outside of but also within the American empire. The term “ruins,” in this regard, refers to both symbolic and material entities ideologically sublated from the purview of anything falling under the rubric “America,” alluding to the regime of American modernity. Having said that, this paper examines first how theorized the notion of ruins is in the field of cultural criticism. It approaches the cultural implications of ruins as anti-ideological in the dominant culture, to the extent that they emerge from the invisible part of politics against the established social order. The so-called hauntology of ruin value is in fact spectral evidence paving the way for the possibility of what is strictly impossible in the ideological coordinates of reality. This possibility of including the, to cite Costas Douzinas, “part of no part” refers to a critical method of illuminating the socially excluded, politically invisible, and cognitively unrecognizable; it is equivalent to what Badiou refers to as “politics” proper, as collective action to “[overthrow] the rule of the game and [interrupt] the natural order of domination.” Then, this papers shows how the performativity of Americanism, which is, by its essence, spectral with frequency, bears on the liberal paradox of the country’s emancipatory discourse of democracy which, on the one hand, upholds equality and freedom while, on the other, inscribing racial injury in the notion of “one nation” sustaining a multicultural America.
참고문헌 (58)
- Adorno, Theodor W., "Minima Moralia: Reflection from the Damaged Life" (2011), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Adorno, Theodor W., "Negative Dialectics" (1981), Bloomsbury Academic
- Adorno, Theodor W., "Prisms. Trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen and Samuel Weber" (1983), The MIT Press
- Badiou, Alain., "Introduction. The Idea of Communism", pp.1~14 (2010), Verso
- Benjamin, Walter., "Illuminations" (1968), Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- "Review on The Reader" (2009)[URL]
- Borman, Frank., "The Growing Bankruptcy Brigade", Time magazine, ~ (1982)
- Boym, Svetlana., "Ruins of Modernity", pp.68~85 (2010), Duke UP
- Cheng, Anne, A., "The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief" (2001), Oxford UP
- Chow, Ray., "The Protestant Ethnic & the Spirit of Capitalism" (2002), Columbia UP
- "Bernhard Schlink: Being German Is a Huge Burden" (2012)[URL]
- Edensor, Tim., "Haunting in the Ruins: Matter and Immateriality", Space and Culture, 1, pp.42~51 (2001)
- Edensor, Tim., "Industrial Ruins: Aesthetics, Materiality and Memory" (2005), Berg
- Derrida, Jacques., "Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International" (1994), Routledge
- Derrida, Jacques., "Without Alibi" (2002), Stanford UP
- Douzinas, Costas., "The Idea of Communism", pp.81~100 (2010), Verso
- Eshel, Amir., "Ruins of Modernity", pp.133~150 (2010), Duke UP
- Freud, Sigmund., "Civilization and Its Discontents" (1989), Norton
- Ignacio, Abe, "The Forbidden Book: the Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons" (2004), San Francisco
- Gibson-Graham, J. K., "The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy" (1996), Blackwell
- Giles, Paul., "Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary" (2002), Duke UP
- Gillam, Victor. Cartoon., "The White Man’s burden (Apologies to Kipling)" (1899), Judge
- Goldberg, David Theo., "Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning" (1993), Mass: Blackwell
- Grewal, Inderpal., "Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms" (2005), Duke UP
- Harvey, David., "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" (2005), Oxford UP
- Harvey, David., "Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism" (2014), Profile Books
- Hirsch, Marianne., "The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust" (2012), Columbia UP
- JanMohamed, Abdul R., "The Economy of Manichean Allegory: the Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature", Critical Inquiry, 12(1), pp.59~87 (1985)
- Joseph, Betty., "Neoliberalism and Allegory", Cultural Critique, 82(Fall), pp.68~94 (2012)
- "The White Man’s Burden" (1899)[URL]
- Kaplan, Robert D., "The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy" (1997), Vintage
- Karen Dale, "Disturbing Structure: Reading the Ruins", Culture and Organization, 17(2), pp.107~121 (2011)
- "Michael Moore Takes on Citibank, Goldman Sachs in Capitalism: A Love Story" (2009)[URL]
- Lee, Hyun., "The Erosion of Democracy in South Korea: The Dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party and the Incarceration of Lee Seok-ki", The Asia-Pacific Journal, 12. 52(5) (2014), The Asia-Pacific Journal
- Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas" (1997), Creative Education
- Marx, Karl., "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (2008), Wildside Press
- Medovoi, Leerom., "American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment", pp.163~186 (2012), U of Iowa P
- Miyoshi, Masao., "Asian American Studies: A Reader", pp.209~231 (2000), Rutgers UP
- "John Stuart Mill on Savagery, Slavery and Civilization" (2011)[URL]
- Nguyen, Viet T., "Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America" (2002), Oxford UP
- Ong, Aihwa., "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality" (1999), Duke UP
- Said, Edward W., "Orientalism" (1978), Vintage
- Schlink, Bernhard., "Press Interview for Pak Hyung Ni Prize", ~ (2014)
- Stephen Daldry., "The Reader", Mirage Enterprises, ~ (2008)
- Simmel, Georg., "Essays on Sociology, Philosophy and Aesthetics" (1965), Harper & Row
- Tabb, William K., "The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century" (2001), Monthly Review Press
- Torgovnick, Marianna., "Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives" (1990), U of Chicago P
- Vismann, Cornelia., "The Love of Ruins", Perspective on Science, 9(2), pp.196~209 (2001)
- "Willy Brandt: ‘Now What Belongs Together Will Grow Together.’"[URL]
- Williams, Raymond., "Marxism and Literature" (1977), Oxford UP
- "Are the Worst Really Full of Passionate Intensity?" (2015)[URL]
- Žižek, Slavoj., "Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left", pp.90~135 (2000), Verso
- Žižek, Slavoj., "Interrogating the Real" (2005), Continuum
- Žižek, Slavoj., "The Puppet and the Dwarf: the Perverse Core of Christianity" (2003), MIT Press
- Žižek, Slavoj., "The Sublime Object of Ideology" (1989), Verso
- Žižek, Slavoj., "The Ticklish Subject" (2000), Verso
- Žižek, Slavoj., "The Universal Exception" (2006), Continuum
- Zuidervaart, Lambert., "Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion" (1991), MIT Press