荒野
扩张主义
不信任
神秘主义
创造力
政治
现代性
战场
环境伦理学
艺术史
威权主义
美学
社会学
历史
艺术
文学类
哲学
法学
认识论
政治学
生态学
古代史
民主
生物
出处
期刊:Arena journal
日期:2011-01-01
卷期号:: 157-
摘要
Science fiction since the 1970s has frequently featured environmental catastrophes of apocalyptic proportions as a starting point to imagine a better world. One such science fiction work from the mid-1970s is Kate Wilhelm's haunting novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976). Apowerful critique of the scientific application of human cloning, the novel is also a scathing commentary on the technologically driven and dependent lifestyle of late modernity. In the clones' inability to display individuality, creativity and selfreliance, and the novel's wilderness setting, it is possible to discern more than just a dislike and distrust of science and technology and the kind of authoritarian political models that culminate in nuclear war. Signalled also is a benign vision of nature that harks back to the ecological mysticism of the 1960s, the transcendentalism of Henry David Thoreau, and the tranquil Arcadian lifestyle that in the United States preceded the expansionist push westward and the destruction of the wilderness.
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