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Tearing Down the Greenhouse: Visual Ecology, Savvy Critics, and Climate Change in T. C. Boyle’s The Terranauts
Studies in the Novel ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2018.0004
River Ramuglia

Abstract:Ecocritics frequently grapple with the problem of containment in their efforts to encapsulate just precisely what “climate change” signifies. Timothy Morton’s concept of the “hyperobject,” for example, is now critical shorthand for these discursive magnitudes. The Terranauts, T. C. Boyle’s fictional engagement with the real-world events surrounding the creation of Biosphere 2, is fixated with the question of containment on spatial, intellectual, ecological, and textual levels. This article argues that The Terranauts uses the spectacular figure containment, Biosphere 2, as an apparatus to reveal the non-material components of ecological systems, more specifically the elements of visual symbolic exchange. These exchanges are imbricated in a reflexive and ironic visual ecology that helps to capture and corrects a voyeuristic reading practice destructive to imagining global environmental problems. It also asserts that comic and satiric forms of fictional containment of climate change hold value in their ability to resist simulative forms of eco-politics.

中文翻译:

拆除温室:TC Boyle 的 The Terranauts 中的视觉生态学、精明的批评家和气候变化

摘要:生态批评家在努力准确概括“气候变化”的含义时,经常努力解决遏制问题。例如,蒂莫西·莫顿 (Timothy Morton) 的“超对象”概念现在是这些话语量级的关键速记。Terranauts 是 TC Boyle 与围绕生物圈 2 创建的现实世界事件的虚构互动,专注于空间、智力、生态和文本层面的遏制问题。本文认为,The Terranauts 使用壮观的人物收容,生物圈 2,作为揭示生态系统非物质组成部分的装置,更具体地说,是视觉符号交换的元素。这些交流交织在反身和讽刺的视觉生态中,有助于捕捉和纠正对想象全球环境问题具有破坏性的窥淫癖阅读实践。它还断言,对气候变化的虚构遏制的喜剧和讽刺形式在其抵制模拟形式的生态政治的能力方面具有价值。
更新日期:2018-01-01
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