Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice
暫譯: 反應性世界建構：從推測性想像到政治實踐
Banerjee, Anindita, Vint, Sherryl, Higgins, David M.
- 出版商: Summit Valley Press
- 出版日期: 2026-05-26
- 售價: $3,370
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,202
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 420
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262053675
- ISBN-13: 9780262053679
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The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice. Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the "normal," "real," or "inevitable." This act of speculation--known as worldbuilding--has become undeniably resurgent in our times of multiple crises. Worldbuilding has long been associated with progressivist impulses, yet this book examines how worldbuilding has also been conducive to a diametrically opposite set of ideologies and politics, including apocalyptic re-enactments, alternative histories, and conspiracy theories. Reactionary Worldbuilding, edited by Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David Higgins, and Jordan Carroll, analyzes how interrogating these reactionary modes can open up new ways of imagining value and belonging, justice and what is natural, history and its lessons, and the future and pathways to it. Combining theoretical and analytical perspectives with site-specific knowledge of various periods and regions around the world, from interwar Germany to Soviet Central Asia, post-independence India to contemporary South Korea, this volume traces the durable and persuasive appeal of reactionary worldbuilding far beyond the boundaries of the current moment. The speculative arts of reactionary worldbuilding cannot be dismissed as mere excesses of extremist fantasy; instead, this collection demonstrates that they can serve as crucial foundations for making sense of the self and the world and shows why it is urgent that we critique their power.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
對世界建構黑暗面進行的首次深入研究，探討推測性想像與政治實踐之間的聯繫。
推測性想像使一系列可能的世界得以呈現，這些世界在關鍵方面與由「正常」、「真實」或「不可避免」的共同假設所主導的世界有所不同。這種推測的行為——被稱為世界建構——在我們面臨多重危機的時代中無疑重新興起。世界建構長期以來與進步主義的衝動相關聯，但本書探討了世界建構如何也促成了一套截然相反的意識形態和政治，包括啟示錄式的重演、替代歷史和陰謀論。反動世界建構，由Anindita Banerjee、Sherryl Vint、David Higgins和Jordan Carroll編輯，分析了質疑這些反動模式如何能開啟想像價值與歸屬感、正義與自然、歷史及其教訓，以及未來及其通道的新方式。本書結合理論與分析視角，並結合來自世界各地不同時期和地區的具體知識，從戰間德國到蘇聯中亞，從獨立後的印度到當代南韓，追溯反動世界建構的持久和有說服力的吸引力，遠超過當前時刻的界限。反動世界建構的推測性藝術不能被視為極端幻想的單純過度；相反，本書集展示了它們可以作為理解自我和世界的重要基礎，並顯示出我們批判其力量的緊迫性。作者簡介
Anindita Banerjee is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, a faculty fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and an Ivy+Mellon Leadership Fellow. Her recent publications include South of the Future and Border Environments. Sherryl Vint is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and English at the University of California, Riverside, where she founded the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and has published widely on science fiction, including Biopolitical Futures and Programming the Future. David M. Higgins is Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide. He is the author of Reverse Colonization, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award. Jordan S. Carroll is the author of Speculative Whiteness and Reading the Obscene, which won the 2020-2021 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Anindita Banerjee 是康奈爾大學比較文學的副教授，也是康奈爾阿特金森可持續發展中心的教職研究員，以及Ivy+Mellon領導力研究員。她最近的出版作品包括 未來的南方 和 邊界環境。
Sherryl Vint 是加州大學河濱分校媒體與文化研究及英語的傑出教授，她創立了推測小說與科學文化計畫。她是 科幻研究 的主編，並在科幻領域廣泛發表，包括 生物政治的未來 和 編程未來。David M. Higgins 是全球範圍內的艾姆布里-瑞德航空大學英語與美國研究的副教授及人文與傳播系主任。他是 逆向殖民 的作者，該書獲得2021年科幻研究協會圖書獎。Jordan S. Carroll 是 推測的白人性 和 閱讀猥褻 的作者，該書獲得2020-2021年MLA獨立學者獎。
