Planetary Dysphoria
2013; Routledge; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09528822.2013.752197
ISSN1475-5297
Autores Tópico(s)Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
ResumoAbstract Planetary dysphoria is the term coined by the author to capture the geopsychoanalytic state of the world at its most depressed and unruhig, awaiting the triumphant revenge of acid, oil and dust. The article considers practices giving expression to this emergent planetary aesthetic, informed by a newfound sensitivity to the real and imagined processes of the earth's destruction and the end of life as we know it. No single or simple politics corresponds to its various expressions; the author draws on examples ranging from W G Sebald's poem Nach der Natur to Lars von Trier's film Melancholia, and from Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia to Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound. Keywords: melancholiaplanetary dysphoria Naturphilosophie nihilismgeotraumapsychoanalysisEugene ThackerReza NegarestaniPeter Sloterdijkthymos Notes 1. W G Sebald, Nach der Natur (1988), from the translation into English by Michael Hamburger, After Nature, Random House, New York, 2002, p 113 2. On the concepts of Romantic and aesthetic absolutes, see Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism, Philip Barnard and Cheryl Lester, trans, SUNY, Albany, New York, 1988. This text is a considerably abridged version of the French original, L'Absolu littéraire, Seuil, Paris, 1978. 3. Sebald, op cit, p 99 4. See 'After Nature' in the digital archive at http://www.newmuseum.org/. 5. Douglas Feuk, 'The Celestographs of August Strindberg', Cabinet 3, summer 2001, Birgitta Danielsson, trans, online at: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/3/celesographs.php 6. Heizer is an obvious choice for this medium, but I could have mentioned any number of earthworks featured in 'Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974', a recent show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles curated by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon. 9. Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics, vol 1, Robert Bononno, trans, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2010, p 33 7. Gabrielle Decamous, 'Nuclear Activities and Modern Catastrophes: Art Faces the Radioactive Waves', in Leonardo, vol 44, no 2, April 2011, p 127 8. Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010, p 29, p 30, p 36 10. 'We are no longer mostly dealing with information that is transmitted from a source to a receiver, but increasingly also with informational dynamics – that is with the relation between noise and signal, including fluctuations and microvariations, entropic emergences and negentropic emergences, positive feedback and chaotic processes. If there is an informational quality to contemporary culture, then it might be not so much because we exchange more information than before, or even because we buy, sell or copy informational commodities, but because cultural processes are taking on the attributes of information – they are increasingly grasped and conceived in terms of their informational dynamics.' Tiziana Terranova, Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age, Pluto, New York, 2004, p 7 11. See, for example, Philippe Morel's discussion of the 'distributed paradigm', which relies on 'grid computing', as a protocol aimed at rendering 'the classical concept of singular and autonomous intelligence obsolete' and which takes as points of departure: 'ideas of industrial production, post-human networks or disappearing cities in reference to bionetworks and the multitude'. 'Computational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-Human Network', Architectural Design, September/October, 2006, p 100, p 101. See, in the same issue of AD, the extension of feedback to 'responsive design networks' in work by the design collaborative 'servo', 'Parallel Processing: Design Practice', p 81, as well as Benjamin Bratton and Hernan Diaz-Alonso's description of a foray into fashioning an environment grafted from the plural 'post-Oedipal' family, through a prosthetic projection designed 'to exacerbate, accommodate and confound intimate social economies', 'Treatment 1: Notes from an Informal Discussion on Interinstitutional Design Research and Image Production', p 110. 16. Thacker, In the Dust of this Planet, op cit, p 133, emphasis in the original 12. I refer here to Peter Fenves's chapter 'Revolution in the Air; or the End of the Human Regime on Earth', in his Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth, Routledge, London, 2003, pp 136–161; to Félix Guattari's Chaosmose, Galilée, Paris, 1992; to Eugene Thacker's After Life, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2010; and his In the Dust of this Planet, vol 1 of Horror of Philosophy, Zero, Alresford, Hampshire, 2010; and Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, re: press, Melbourne, 2008, p 238. 13. Peter Sloterdijk, Bubbles: Spheres I, Wieland Hoban, trans, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2011, p 22, p 24 14. Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, Ray Brassier, trans, Continuum, London, 2008 15. Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Duke University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2010, p xiii and p ix respectively 17. Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2007, p 227 and p 204 respectively 18. Ibid, p 223 19. Ibid, p 225 20. Ibid, p 10, citing Lyotard, The Inhuman 21. Jacques Derrida, '"Geopsychoanalysis…" And the Rest of the World', Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans, in Christopher Lane, ed, The Psychoanalysis of Race, Columbia University, New York, 1998, p 66 22. Aidan Tynan, 'Geotrauma, towards a concise definition', online at: http://violentsigns.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/geotrauma-towards-a-concise-definition/ 25. Cyclonopedia, op cit, p 17 23. Negarestani, op cit, p 4 24. Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, Routledge, London, 1992, p 106 29. Ibid, p 34 26. Robin Mackay, 'A Brief History of Geotrauma', in Ed Keller et al, eds, Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, Punctum, Brooklyn, 2012, p 16 27. Ibid, p 31 28. Ibid, p 33 30. Ibid, 'Glossary', online at: http://www.ccru.net/id(entity)/glossary.htm 34. Ibid, p 228 31. Ray Brassier, 'Accelerationism', transcription from a Backdoor Broadcasting Company recording, online at: moskvax.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/accelerationism-ray-brassier/ 32. Brassier, Nihil Unbound, op cit, p 204 33. Ibid, p 34 36. Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet, op cit, p 1, p 2 35. Thacker, After Life, op cit, pp 229–230 37. Land, op cit, p 119 40. Ibid, p 244 38. Ian Hamilton Grant, Philosophies of Nature after Schelling, Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy series, Continuum, London, 2008 39. Sigmund Freud, 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917), Joan Riviere, trans, in James Strachey, ed, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol 14, Hogarth, London, 1995, p 246 41. Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation, Mario Wenning, trans, Columbia University, New York, 2010, p 12 42. Ibid, p 25, pp 33–35 43. Mackenzie Wark, 'An Inhuman Fiction of Forces', in Keller, ed, Leper Creativity, op cit, p 40 44. Brassier, Nihil Unbound, op cit, p x, quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Walter Kaufman, trans, Vintage, New York, 1967, p 1
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