ABSTRACT

In this article, I argue that imagining the end of ends through narratives about the end of the world and the undead may be mobilised to address a crisis of ends and means. Specifically, I analyze jokes and fantasies that my indigenous Shuar interlocutors from the Ecuadorian Amazon shared with me in the context of protests in favour of the construction of a road on their territory. What brings them together is the operation they perform on previously existing material, systematically inverting them to make of death and extermination an object of desire. Furthermore, I show that fantasising the extermination of all Shuar or joking about having sex with the undead means imagining the end of kinship as desirable and makes it possible to perceive more clearly the failure of indigenous politics.

摘要

在这篇文章中，我认为通过关于世界末日和亡灵的叙述来想象结局的终结可能会动员起来解决结局和手段的危机。具体来说，我分析了来自厄瓜多尔亚马逊地区的土着 Shuar 对话者在反对在他们的领土上修建道路的抗议活动中与我分享的笑话和幻想。将他们聚集在一起的是他们对先前存在的材料进行的操作，系统地反转它们，使死亡和灭绝成为欲望的对象。此外，我还表明，幻想消灭所有的书阿或开玩笑说与不死族发生性关系意味着想象亲属关系的结束是可取的，并且可以更清楚地感知本土政治的失败。