ABSTRACT

This essay considers how Joseph Conrad’s novels Lord Jim and Nostromo explore political subjectivation as a disposition-making process capable of unleashing feelings in new and inhuman forms. By examining trust and hope as dispositions which organise discourses, signs, and feelings, the essay brings forward a tension in Conrad’s understanding of subjectivation for white imperial agents between an older form of subjectivity based on rights and contracts exemplified by trust and character, and an emergent form of subjectivity based on economic interests and success exemplified by hope.

中文翻译：

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“愚蠢的希望”：约瑟夫康拉德的吉姆和诺斯特罗莫勋爵的主观倾向

摘要

这篇文章考虑了约瑟夫康拉德的小说吉姆勋爵和诺斯特罗莫如何探索政治主体化作为一种​​能够以新的和不人道的形式释放感情的处置过程。通过将信任和希望视为组织话语、符号和感情的倾向，本文提出了康拉德对白人帝国代理人主体化的理解中的一种张力，一种基于权利和契约的旧式主体性形式（以信任和性格为代表）与基于经济利益和以希望为代表的成功的主体性的新兴形式。