Bakterier og biopolitik. Materiel modernisme i Joseph Conrads “The Nigger of ‘Narcissus’”

Forfattere

  • Jens Lohfert Jørgensen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v32i77.97044

Nøgleord:

biopolitik, Joseph Conrad, Jane Bennett, litteraturkritik

Resumé

Jens Lohfert Jørgensen: “Bacteria and Biopolitics: Material Modernism in Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’”

Around the year 1900, a number of prominent authors depict a changing world, phenomenologically and psychologically, as well as socially and politically, via bacteria. This endeavor moves their work in the direction of modernism. Drawing on Robert Esposito’s work on the interrelations between biopolitics, community and immunity, and on Jane Bennett’s notion of “vibrant matter”, this article discusses one of these works, Joseph Conrad’s 1897 novel The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, focusing on its depiction of social dynamics and the material anchorage of these dynamics.

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Publiceret

2017-09-20

Citation/Eksport

Jørgensen, J. L. (2017). Bakterier og biopolitik. Materiel modernisme i Joseph Conrads “The Nigger of ‘Narcissus’”. Passage - Tidsskrift for Litteratur Og Kritik, 32(77). https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v32i77.97044