Against the Current: Electricity, Environment, and Culture in Brazil
暫譯: 逆流而上：巴西的電力、環境與文化
Saramago, Victoria
- 出版商: Summit Valley Press
- 出版日期: 2027-06-15
- 售價: $2,330
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,213
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 272
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262063727
- ISBN-13: 9780262063722
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商品描述
A timely and measured account of electricity's material and aesthetic impact on Brazilian culture. Electricity has become an inescapable structuring force in modern life. Electrification has also been proposed as possible solution to fossil-fuel driven environmental crisis. But for all its promises, electrification has material demands. Against the Current examines electricity as an overlooked yet pivotal force in twentieth-century Brazilian aesthetics. Focusing on moments in which electricity's presence or absence erupt into works of literature, film, visual arts, theater, and music, Victoria Saramago shines a light on the promises and pitfalls of electricity, in turn illuminating the characteristic tensions of the Anthropocene. Brazil's uneven history of electrification is based on one of the highest rates of renewable energy generation in the world. Brazilian cultural production has been keenly aware of the contradictions of electrification's material promises and demands. This book shows how electricity is the hidden undercurrent of the most iconic turns in twentieth-century Brazilian history--from anthropophagy to the sertão, and from the dictatorship to dams--and proposes a new understanding of Brazilian aesthetics as inextricably intertwined with debates about energy.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一部及時而審慎的著作，探討電力對巴西文化在物質與美學層面的影響。
電力已成為現代生活中無可避免的結構性力量。電氣化也被視為解決化石燃料所驅動之環境危機的可能方案。然而，儘管電氣化帶來諸多承諾，仍有其物質層面的需求。《Against the Current》探討電力如何成為二十世紀巴西美學中一股遭到忽視、卻至關重要的力量。Victoria Saramago 聚焦於電力的存在或缺席突然出現在文學、電影、視覺藝術、劇場與音樂作品中的時刻，揭示電力所帶來的希望與陷阱，並進一步闡明人類世的典型矛盾。
巴西不均衡的電氣化歷史，建立在其擁有全球最高再生能源發電比例之一的基礎上。巴西的文化創作敏銳地意識到，電氣化在物質層面所帶來的承諾與需求之間存在矛盾。本書展現電力如何成為二十世紀巴西歷史中最具代表性轉折的隱伏暗流——從食人主義（anthropophagy）到塞爾唐（sertão），從獨裁政權到水壩——並提出對巴西美學的新理解：它與能源相關的辯論有著不可分割的緊密關聯。
作者簡介
Victoria Saramago is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Fictional Environments and has coedited The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics and Literature Beyond the Human. She is the recipient of a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other awards.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Victoria Saramago 是 University of Chicago 的 Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies 副教授。她著有《Fictional Environments》，並共同編輯《The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics》與《Literature Beyond the Human》。她曾獲 National Endowment for the Humanities 頒發為期一年的研究獎助，此外也獲得其他獎項。
