Across 24 seasons and 260 episodes of the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, host Guy Fieri guides viewers through an All-American road trip to discover independent ‘mom-and-pop’ restaurants that are ‘off the beaten path’. With this mission, and through an aesthetic that draws on the symbols of post-war American culture, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives weaves food and car culture together to evoke a nostalgic and idealistic nationalism. While this show does not explicitly reference climate change, I argue that its hypernationalism operates as a cultural counternarrative to climate change discourse. The show presents, for example, the 1950s as a period of futurism, consumerism and optimism, a patriotic narrative that runs parallel to the focus on this same era as the period of ‘Great Acceleration’, which John Robert McNeill and Peter Engelke argue was a time of unprecedented industrialization, resource extraction and population growth that marked the start date of the Anthropocene.1¹ Similarly the show’s unending American road trip works to encourage a myopic, national perspective that depicts local economies as reliant on environmentally harmful consumer practices rather than a broader-ranging perspective that couples consumption behaviours to global environmental impacts. In this portrayal it is not planetary ecosystems that are shown to be at risk of extinction, but rather the American way of life; the personal behaviours that individuals are prompted to modify are not related to energy conservation but to supporting the excesses of American consumer culture and thus a masculinist version of the American Dream.

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怀旧的民族主义和关于晚餐，乘车游览和潜水的平凡的人类世

在美食网络的24个季节和260集的节目中，晚餐，开车旅行和潜水节目主持人盖伊·菲耶里（Guy Fieri）引导观众进行全美旅行，以发现独立的“妈妈与流行”餐厅，而这些餐厅“不在人迹罕至的地方” 。通过这一使命，并通过汲取战后美国文化的象征的美学，大餐，开车兜风和潜水将食物和汽车文化编织在一起，唤起一种怀旧和理想主义的民族主义。尽管该节目未明确提及气候变化，但我认为其超民族主义作为对气候变化话语的一种文化叙述。例如，该节目展示了一个1950年代的未来主义，消费主义和乐观主义时期，这是一种爱国主义叙事，与对“大加速”时期的关注相同，约翰·罗伯特·麦克尼尔和彼得·恩格克认为这是史无前例的工业化，资源开采和人口增长的时代，标志着Anthropocene.1的开始日期¹同样，该节目的无休止的美国公路旅行旨在鼓励近视，民族视角，该视角将当地经济描述为对环境有害的消费者行为，而不是将消费行为与全球环境影响联系在一起的广泛视角。在这种刻画中，并不是行星生态系统面临灭绝的危险，而是美国人的生活方式。促使人们改变的个人行为与节约能源无关，而是与支持过度的美国消费文化有关，因此与美国梦的男子气概有关。