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Ghostly fogs in a decaying empire: disoriented and melancholy experience in Russia’s metropole
Cultural Studies ( IF 1.533 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 , DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2020.1780284
Mark D. Steinberg 1
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ABSTRACT This article explores the disoriented affective experience of urban modernity in the Russian imperial metropole: obsessive portrayals, by writers both famous and obscure, of St. Petersburg as a place of alleged power and intense modernity haunted by loss and feeling lost, by fragmentation and decay, by feelings of standing on shifting ground, vague disenchantment, and melancholy. With a mixture of concreteness and intangibility, this was an affective perception embodied in haunting fogs. Fog was a ubiquitous fact in the material city and an inescapable metaphor in the interpreted city. If imperial modernity represented confident knowledge and forward movement, fog represented uncertainty and disorientation, even the unrepresentable. Not least, fog embodied and nurtured anxious feelings about historical time: the experience of the modern as discontinuity, fragmentation, contingency, precarity, instability, and looming disaster. But fog also evoked dreams and possibilities of the unexpected. Fog disrupted epistemological certainties and historical teleologies. Fog disoriented the present and thus the future. As such, fog opened up vague visions of possibility and even a radical other. This essay itself seeks to disorient familiar understandings of St. Petersburg and its famous cultural ‘text’ to see through its fogs, and in fog itself, not only unstable images of a decaying imperial modern, not only the off-centred experience of that history at the heart of imperial power, but also images of vaguely imagined and unpredictable possibility. As such, this is a story that can reorient how we understand the revolution that began in St. Petersburg in 1917 and shook apart an empire.

中文翻译:

腐烂帝国中的幽灵雾:俄罗斯大都市迷失方向和忧郁的经历

摘要本文探讨了俄罗斯帝国大都市对城市现代性的迷恋情感体验:著名的作家和晦涩的作家对圣彼得堡的痴迷写照,认为圣彼得堡是所谓的权力和强烈的现代性之地,周围充斥着迷失和感觉迷失,分裂和分裂。衰落,因为站在地面上的感觉,模糊的魅惑和忧郁。混合了具体性和无形性,这是困扰雾中的情感感觉。在物质城市中,雾是一个普遍存在的事实,在被解释的城市中,雾是不可避免的隐喻。如果说帝国的现代性代表着自信的知识和前进的动力,那么雾就代表着不确定性和迷失方向,甚至是无法代表的。尤其重要的是,雾体现并滋养了对历史时间的焦虑感:现代人的经历,包括间断性,碎片化,偶然性,不稳定,不稳定和迫在眉睫的灾难。但是雾也唤起了梦想和意外的可能性。雾破坏了认识论的确定性和历史目的。雾使现在和未来迷失了方向。因此,迷雾使人们对可能性甚至是激进的可能性都产生了模糊的认识。本文本身旨在使对圣彼得堡及其著名的文化“文本”的熟悉迷惑不清,以通过迷雾查看,并且在迷雾本身中,不仅是衰落的帝国现代的不稳定图像,而且不仅仅是那个历史的偏心经历是帝国权力的核心,同时也隐含着想象中和无法预测的可能性的图像。因此,这是一个故事,可以重新定位我们如何理解始于圣路易斯的革命。
更新日期:2020-06-18
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