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Perspektywy Kultury
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2024
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vol. 45
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issue 2
51-64
PL
Niniejsza praca wykorzystuje systemową koncepcję „plantacjocenu” w analizie Plantatora z Malaty (PzM) (2012 [1914]) Josepha Conrada, ukazując przy tym autora jako pisarza obecnej epoki geologicznej, w której niszczycielska działalność człowieka doprowadziła do nieodwracalnych zmian na Ziemi. W przyjętym w niniejszym artykule ujęciu czas w PzM nabiera podwójnego, analitycznego znaczenia. Pomimo że praca skupia się na historycznych powiązaniach ekonomicznych inwestycji z imperialnym zamiarem kolonialnego zarządzania naukowego, analizuje ona również PzM z biokolonialnej perspektywy. Perspektywa ta podkreśla rolę przesiedlonego życia roślinnego jako niezwykle istotnego dla ontologicznie pluralistycznej kontekstualizacji PzM jako przykładu plantacjoceńskiej narracji. Z analizy wynika, że PzM zapewnia dostęp do tego, co można nazwać w rozumienia Marka Boulda plantacjonoceńską „nieświadomością”, ponieważ opowiadanie to ukazuje współczesnemu czytelnikowi realia ludzkiej oraz „nie-ludzkiej” (tj. np. roślinnej), dyslokacji, relokacji i ich wyzysku na królewskiej plantacji na początku XX w.
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In this paper I use the systemic concept of ‘Plantationocene’ to map out my reading of Joseph Conrad’s short story ‘The Planter of Malata’ (TPM) (1914), reframing Conrad as a writer of the current geological age, where human activity has induced devastating alterations to the Earth. In my ecoreading of TPM, time acquires a double analytical meaning. While I focus on the historical entanglements between capital investment and imperial goals of colonial scientific management mirrored in TPM, I also look at this short story from a biocolonial perspective, foregrounding the role of displaced plant life as extremely relevant for an ontologically plural contextual understanding of TPM as a narrative of the Plantationocene. Ultimately, I argue that TPM gives access to what could be termed the Plantationocene ‘unconscious’, in Mark Bould’s sense of the term, as it portrays for a contemporary readership the realities of human and nonhuman dislocation, relocation and exploitation unfolding in the context of the imperial plantation at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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A debate about a new era in the history of the Earth has been under way for almost two decades, but it has focused merely on an adequate naming and scientifically verifiable dating of that period. What has been written about the Anthropocene lays bare specificity of methodologies and approaches of various research fields, but above all demonstrates locality and situatedness of knowledge produced within each of them. The article starts with recalling a few remedies to catastrophic after-effects of the techno-scientific progress proposed by Isabelle Stangers, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour, who refer to chthonic powers. Although they give these powers the same name Gaïa, each of them differently defines an open-ended and emergent system of symbiotic relationships which was described by the British physiologist James Lovelock in the late 1970s. Next, the article presents the most important concepts of the new era that compete with the term “Anthropocene”: Capitalocene (Jason W. Moore), Necrocene (Justin McBrien), and Plantatiocene (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing). Finally the article focuses on Donna Haraway’s idea of prospective and speculative fabulation (Staying with Trouble, 2016). Haraway outlines a future after the Anthropocene, speculating about how to salvage naturecultural variability. She offers a radical redefinition of relationships between humans and others critters, biotic and abiotic agencies. She does not focus extensively, however, on holobionts in border area of biology and modern technologies which emerge in such contemporary projects as Species Series of an Corean artist Wonbin Yanga (2012), analysed in the paper.
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