Drive your plow over the bones of the dead and the impasse of forms in contemporaneity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2024.258376Keywords:
contemporary literature, anthropocene, post-modernity, neoliberalismAbstract
The article presents an analysis of the polish novel Drive your plow over the bones of the dead, published in 2009 by Olga Tokarczuk. It focuses on the obstacles faced by aesthetic works in times of post-modernity, neoliberalism, and climatic crisis, having as its central argument the idea that the book constantly builds and then defuses certain utopian constructs and certain fetishised mechanisms, ending up, thus, in an ambivalent position in the face of our contemporary world. Therefore, special focus is given to the contradictions present in the novel, which may, despite its limits, be shown to be meaningful.
References
ADORNO, Theodor. As estrelas descem à terra: a coluna de astrologia do Los Angeles Times: um estudo sobre superstição secundária. Tradução de Pedro Rocha de Oliveira. São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2008.
ADORNO, Theodor. Teoria estética. Tradução de Artur Morão. Lisboa: Edições 70, 1993. (Arte e Comunicação: 14).
BENJAMIN, Walter. Obras Escolhidas III: Charles Baudelaire, um lírico no auge do capitalismo. Tradução de José Carlos Martins Barbosa e Hemerson Alves Baptista. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1994
ENGELS, Friedrich; MARX, Karl. Manifesto comunista. Tradução de Álvaro Pina. 1ª ed., 4ª reimpressão. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2005.
FREUD, Sigmund. O incômodo. Tradução de Paulo Sérgio de Souza Jr. São Paulo: Blucher, 2021. (Série pequena biblioteca invulgar).
JAMESON, Fredric. A redução do mundo em Le Guin. In: Arqueologias do futuro: o desejo chamado Utopia e outras ficções científicas. Tradução de Carlos Pissardo. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2021, pp. 415-435.
JAMESON, Fredric. Pós-Modernismo: a lógica cultural do capitalismo tardio. Tradução de Maria Elisa Cevasco. São Paulo: Ática, 2000.
KIM, Seongcheol. Between illiberalism and hyper-neoliberalism: competing populist discourses in the Czech Republic. In: European Politics and Society, vol. 21, n. 5, 2020, pp. 618-633. Disponível em: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23745118.2020.1709368. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2023.
LATOUR, Bruno. Onde aterrar? LATOUR, Bruno. Como se orientar politicamente no Antropoceno. Tradução de Marcela Vieira. Rio de Janeiro: Bazar do Tempo, 2020.
LIPOVETSKY, Gilles; SERROY, Jean. A estetização do mundo: viver na era do capitalismo artista. Tradução de Eduardo Brandão. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2015.
MORTON, Timothy. Ecology without nature: rethinking environmental aesthetics. Cambridge, Massachusetts, e Londres, Inglaterra: Harvard University Press, 2007.
MORTON, Timothy. Hyperobjects: philosophy and ecology after the end of the world. Minneapolis; Londres: University Minnesota Press, 2013.
NGAI, Sianne. Our aesthetic categories: zany, cute, interesting. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Londres: Harvard University Press, 2012.
SHIELDS, Stuart. The paradoxes of necessity: fail forwards neoliberalism, social reproduction, recombinant populism and Poland’s 500Plus policy. In: Capital & Class, v. 43, n. 4, out. 2019, pp. 1-17. Disponível em: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309816819880798?journalCode=cnca. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2023.
SMIECINSKA, Nadia. Crisis of neoliberalism and the rise of authoritarianism in Poland: how a “good change” is turning Poland into a neo-authoritarian State. In: BERBEOGLU, Berch (Org.). The global rise of authoritarianism in the 21st century: crisis of neoliberal globalization and the nationalist response. Nova York: Routledge, 2020. p. 251-274. Disponível em: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367854379-18/crisis-neoliberalism-rise-authoritarianism-poland-nadia-smiecinska. Acesso em: 22 jan. 2023.
TOKARCZUK, Olga. Sobre os ossos dos mortos. Tradução de Olga Bagińska-Shinzato. São Paulo: Todavia, 2019.
WALLACE, Rob. Pandemia e agronegócio: doenças infecciosas, capitalismo e ciência. Tradução de Allan Rodrigo de Campos Silva. São Paulo: Elefante, 2020.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Vinícius de Oliveira Prusch
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with Revista Investigações agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
The contents of this journal are licensed under 