The Functions of the Embassy in the World-Making Experiments of China Miéville

Brown, Steven

doi:https://doi.org/10.18910/98521

The Functions of the Embassy in the World-Making Experiments of China Miéville

Brown, Steven

NatureCulture, 2019, 5, 95-116

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固定URL: https://doi.org/10.18910/98521

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タイトル	The Functions of the Embassy in the World-Making Experiments of China Miéville
著者	著者名 Brown, Steven
抄録	What happens when social scientific theorizing seeks to take instruction from Science Fiction and Fantasy writing directly rather than using it as a source of convenient examples? This paper discusses the ways in which the figure of the ‘embassy’ and ambassadorial functions operate within the work of China Miéville. Focusing in particular on three key novels––The City and The City, Kraken and Embassytown––the paper reads the secondary worlds constructed by Miéville as offering their own self-contained problematics of relevance to social science. These concerns the mechanisms of territorial distinction, the nature of communication and the organization of spatio-temporal relations. The embassy emerges as an embodied site for the mediation of specialized communicative relations that are fundamentally irreconcilable, but which nevertheless offer the hope of reaching outside of human temporality. The relevance of these considerations for a social science of the Anthropocene and the Chthulucene are outlined.
出版者	NatureCulture
収録物名	NatureCulture
巻(号)	5
ページ	95-116
刊行年月	2019
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98521
DOI	https://doi.org/10.18910/98521
eISSN	24361410
アクセス権	open access
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	本学関連学会 Related Societies
カテゴリ	NatureCulture / 第5号

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DCTERMS.abstract	What happens when social scientific theorizing seeks to take instruction from Science Fiction and Fantasy writing directly rather than using it as a source of convenient examples? This paper discusses the ways in which the figure of the ‘embassy’ and ambassadorial functions operate within the work of China Miéville. Focusing in particular on three key novels––The City and The City, Kraken and Embassytown––the paper reads the secondary worlds constructed by Miéville as offering their own self-contained problematics of relevance to social science. These concerns the mechanisms of territorial distinction, the nature of communication and the organization of spatio-temporal relations. The embassy emerges as an embodied site for the mediation of specialized communicative relations that are fundamentally irreconcilable, but which nevertheless offer the hope of reaching outside of human temporality. The relevance of these considerations for a social science of the Anthropocene and the Chthulucene are outlined.
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