ABSTRACT In 1975 Jean-François Lyotard published a short text entitled Pacific Wall. A mash-up of philosophy, fiction, biography, and art criticism, it is highly gnomic if read in isolation. Studied alongside other works from this period, however, it may be understood as sketching a postcolonial libidinal economy. The book’s central concept, “white (or blank) skin” avoids any simple identification and instead expresses a series of permutations of desire in relation to race and sex: it is equally the skin of white heterosexual women and of black homosexual men; equally the otherness at the borders of capital’s expansion and the supposed identity at the heart of Empire. Lyotard suggests that political issues endemic to the postcolonial situation may be understood in terms of feelings such as lust, jealousy, fear, and the desire for revenge, and that these circulate and mutate along with the flows and transformations of capital.

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“白皮肤”：利奥塔的后殖民时期合法经济素描

摘要1975年，让·弗朗索瓦·利奥塔（Jean-FrançoisLyotard）发表了题为《太平洋墙》的短文。如果将哲学，小说，传记和艺术评论混搭在一起，那么孤立地阅读它是非常符合人类学的。然而，与这一时期的其他著作一起研究时，它可能被理解为勾勒了后殖民的自由经济。该书的中心概念“白色（或空白）皮肤”避免了任何简单的识别，而是表达了与种族和性别有关的一系列欲望变化：它同样是白人异性恋女性和黑人同性恋男性的皮肤；同样，在首都扩张的边界上的另一性和在帝国中心的假定身份。利奥塔（Lyotard）建议，可以根据诸如欲望，嫉妒，恐惧和复仇的欲望之类的感受来理解后殖民时期特有的政治问题，