ABSTRACT This essay considers the changing relationship between asbestos and populism, as both terms travel across different semantic contexts. It argues that this dynamic relationship can help to outline a populist ecology, through which resource actors such as asbestos play a more significant role than either populist leaders or their people anticipate. Drawing on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a site for examining the implications of this asbestos-inflected populist ecology, the essay suggests new ways of linking the recent populism of Donald Trump to an older, more articulate populism, exemplified by Pierre Trudeau.

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大卫·福斯特·华莱士的《无限笑话》中的石棉民粹主义

摘要本文考虑了石棉和民粹主义之间不断变化的关系，因为这两个词都跨越了不同的语义环境。它认为这种动态关系可以帮助勾勒民粹主义的生态，通过这种生态关系，石棉等资源参与者扮演着比民粹主义领导人或人民所期望的更为重要的角色。这篇文章借鉴了大卫·福斯特·华莱士（David Foster Wallace）的《无限的笑话》（Infinite Jest）作为考察这种受石棉影响的民粹主义生态学含义的站点，提出了将唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）最近的民粹主义与较老的，更加清晰的民粹主义联系起来的新方法，皮埃尔·特鲁多（Pierre Trudeau）就是例证。