Ritið : tímarit Hugvísindastofnunar - 01.01.2016, Page 34

Ritið : tímarit Hugvísindastofnunar - 01.01.2016, Page 34
33 gjarnan með vísan til áreiðanlegustu vísinda um hnattræna hlýnun og hlut olíu í vandanum. Sótt er í skrif ítalska heimspekingsins Giorgio Agamben til að varpa ljósi á mikilvægi „aðgerðaleysis“ á Drekasvæðinu, þótt það samrýmist síður en svo rökvísi kapítalisma og nýfrjálshyggju. Það að biðja ráðamenn eða fyrirtæki um að láta skammtímagróðasjónarmið lönd og leið felur í sér ósk um að viðkomandi reyni ekki lengur að gangast upp í þeim kröfum um gróða og stöðugan vöxt sem ríkja í kapítalískum neyslusamfélögum. Leitað er lausna í hinsegin fræðum í lokahluta greinarinnar, þar sem tekist verður á við það að fræðileg greining á loftslagsvand- anum og orsökum hans virðist ekki nægja til að brugðist sé við honum. Er þar fyrst og fremst unnið með skrif Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick um það hvað fræðin geti gert til að hafa áhrif á heiminn og kenningar J. Jack Halberstam um gildi þess ‚að mistakast‘ samkvæmt ríkjandi viðmiðum þegar mikið liggur við. Lykilorð: olíuleit, Drekasvæðið, hinsegin fræði, andóf A B S T R A C T ‘Preferring not to’ The Search for Oil in Iceland, Impotentiality and Queer Alternatives In recent years, environmentalists have become increasingly vocal in pleas ‘not to’ directed at governments and members of various industries, who are not only capable of actualizing plans that would involve great CO2 emissions, but would also profit immensely from doing so. This article discusses these anti-capitalist dem- ands for inaction in the context of the search for oil currently being conducted in the Dreki region out of Iceland’s north coast. Even though it did not meet much opposition from political parties, individuals and groups alike proposed that the government did not proceed with their plans to search for oil, often citing the latest and most accurate scientific research on climate change and the part oil plays in acerbating the problem. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s concept of poten- tiality will be explored to show the importance of ‘inaction’ in the Dreki region, which goes against neoliberal, capitalist logics of profit and growth. Asking corpora- tions and governments to suspend their short-term goals of accumulating profit is asking them to fail when it comes to accomplishing the goals of normative, capitalist society. The power of those goals becomes apparent when analyzing the problem of global warming, as well as its causes, is not enough to cause us to react. In response to this problem, the final part of the article will discuss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s writing on what theory can do to affect the world, as well as J. Jack Halberstam’s ideas on the importance of ‘failure’ within a heteronormative framework that does more harm than good. Key words: search for oil, the Dreki region, queer theory, impotentiality ‚AÐ KJÓSA AÐ SLEPPA ÞVÍ‘
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