This article explains how the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at the turn of the twentieth century became the first global celebrity aeronaut, operated as a symbol of ‘technological cosmopolitanism’ — a world view that ostensibly promoted a vision of global unity through technology-enabled exchanges while simultaneously reproducing a core-periphery imagined geography that threatened to erase marginalized populations. Technological cosmopolitanism fitted snugly within the rubric of the Third Republic’s aspiring universalism, which assumed that France offered a model to be emulated around the world, but it was not hegemonic. If for the French appropriating Santos-Dumont meant safeguarding France’s leadership in aeronautics and assuaging their claims of universality, for Brazilians the elision was marked by ambiguity. Brazil’s First Republic hungered for heroes, and authorities saw Santos-Dumont as a symbol of modernity that showed that its place in world history was more than peripheral, even though that very vision was shaped by a Paris-centric world view. But marginalized Afro-Brazilians also found ways to appropriate a white ‘Frenchified’ Brazilian and reimagine their place in a cosmopolitan order. Technological cosmopolitanism evoked a world united by transportation, communication and exchange, but imagining who got to construct and partake in that community was a process continuously marked by erasures and reinsertions.

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将巴西飞行员转变为法国英雄：世纪之交大西洋的名人、奇观和技术世界主义

这篇文章解释了在 20 世纪之交成为第一位全球名人飞行员的巴西人 Alberto Santos-Dumont 如何作为“技术世界主义”的象征——一种表面上通过技术促进全球统一愿景的世界观——使交流成为可能，同时再现了一个核心-边缘的想象地理，威胁着消除边缘化人口。技术世界主义与第三共和国雄心勃勃的普遍主义的标题非常吻合，它假定法国提供了一个可供全世界效仿的模式，但它不是霸权主义的。如果对于法国人来说，占用桑托斯-杜蒙意味着维护法国在航空领域的领导地位并缓和他们对普遍性的要求，那么对于巴西人来说，这种省略的标志是模棱两可的。巴西的第一共和国渴望英雄，当局将桑托斯-杜蒙视为现代性的象征，这表明它在世界历史上的地位不仅仅是边缘的，尽管这种愿景是由以巴黎为中心的世界观所塑造的。但被边缘化的非洲裔巴西人也找到了占有白人“法国化”巴西人的方法，并重新构想了他们在国际化秩序中的地位。技术世界主义唤起了一个由交通、通信和交换联合起来的世界，但想象谁来构建和参与这个社区是一个不断被抹去和重新插入的过程。但被边缘化的非洲裔巴西人也找到了占有白人“法国化”巴西人的方法，并重新构想了他们在国际化秩序中的地位。技术世界主义唤起了一个由交通、通信和交换联合起来的世界，但想象谁来构建和参与这个社区是一个不断被抹去和重新插入的过程。但被边缘化的非洲裔巴西人也找到了占有白人“法国化”巴西人的方法，并重新构想了他们在国际化秩序中的地位。技术世界主义唤起了一个由交通、通信和交换联合起来的世界，但想象谁来构建和参与这个社区是一个不断被抹去和重新插入的过程。