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Impasse, Time, Infrastructure: Politics of Reinhabitation in Karen Tei Yamashita's Petroapocalyptic Fictions

Chen, Wenjia

Studies in American fiction, 2021-01, Vol.48 (1), p.105-126 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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  • Título:
    Impasse, Time, Infrastructure: Politics of Reinhabitation in Karen Tei Yamashita's Petroapocalyptic Fictions
  • Autor: Chen, Wenjia
  • Assuntos: American literature ; Automation ; Energy ; Historiography ; Hydrocarbons ; Infrastructure ; Narratives ; Novels ; Pipelines ; Politics ; Repair ; Time ; Yamashita, Karen Tei (1951- )
  • É parte de: Studies in American fiction, 2021-01, Vol.48 (1), p.105-126
  • Descrição: In the epigraph to this article, for instance, a statement that the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute made before the passage of the new NAFTA deal in 2018 that greenlighted the expansion of oil and gas industry on a much wider scale than its predecessor, the emphasis he puts on the terms "energy revolution" and "the future" is ironic when read against Tropic, in which NAFTA is a primary culprit that renders the future of petrocapitalism a matter of apocalyptic endurance and uncertainty. [...]I turn to Yamashita, who materializes these forms across her creative trajectory through the idea of reinhabiting petroinfrastructure. Any attempt at systematic revolution will be slow and bumpy and may even run entirely out of steam. [...]the challenge for petroapocalyptic narratives is to confront temporality as a political force, just as anti-oil politics must reconcile itself with slowness and stagnation. While Kaposy's main purpose is to inspire historiography on the "non-human temporalities of oil time," his account of "oil's semi-automated logistics" reveals that oil's impasse is an impasse of infrastructure.9 An important reason we are stuck in the hydrocarbon present is that the material and cultural traffic of petromodernity is effectively locked in petroinfrastructures, which in many cases exceed the scale of the human.10 Indeed, petroinfrastructure not only traps oil in its multiple durées but as a material—often petrosynthetic—construction itself, it also mediates heterogeneous temporalities via tactics of "delay, accretion, suspension, repair, resistance, and repurposing.
  • Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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