SF tropi i memi i ostale gradivne kockice žanra

[PTY]

Kao i ostali žanrovi, SF sa sobom nosi žargon koji se vrlo brzo i relativno lako savlada, naravno, uz preduslov postojanja afiniteta za žanr. Ceo taj paket se čitaocu isporuči u lako shvatljivom i relativno samoobjašnjavajućem procesu kroz samo čitanje i jednom kad se dosegne ta kritična masa pročitanog i probavljenog SFa, tu se automatski stiče i neophodan vokabular.


Naravno, većina osnovnog SF žargona formirana je još u Zlatno doba žanra (sa izuzetkom kiberpanka, koji je po ovom pitanju maltene žanr za sebe), pa su zato i žanrovski tropi i memi "upijeni" sa žanrom kao već formulisani i dobro poznati i van žanrovskih okvira. To sam uvek prihvatala zdravo-za-gotovo i retko o tome razmišljala, ali sad me odjednom zanima, pogotovo onaj na koji još uvek gledam kao na primerak u nastanku, da tako kažem: mem koji sam srela na dovoljno različitih i nezavisnih mesta da mi odjednom postane nekako... važan.


Mem je "balkanizacija". haha.




Najpre sam na mem naišla preko referenci na Fosterov "Meat Puppets or Robopaths" a sad bogami i u samoj prozi, u KRSovom 2312, znači, to je to. Foster je to koristio u kontekstu odnosa na realciji nacija-država a i KRS to koristi u istom smislu, naravno, samo u konkretnijem narativnom kontekstu. Evo nekih od lepših korištenja:

balkanization is of course the subject of great disagreement, with judgments of it ranging from its being the newly lowest circle of hell to its representing the delectable and fructifying diversification of life in our time
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possibly smarter therefore as a species than as individuals, but prone to insanity either way, and in any case stuck in the moment?a moment now lost to us? when people lived in the almost-forgotten technology and culture of the Balkanization, the years just before 2312?
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one mistake was that no generally agreed-upon system of governance in space was ever established. That repeated the situation on Earth, where no world government ever emerged. Balkanization became universal; and one aspect of balkanization was a reversion to tribalism, notorious for defining those not in the tribe as not human, sometimes with terrible results. It was not a good structure of feeling for a civilization spanning the solar system and wielding ever-greater

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i naravno, onaj najbolji samoobjašnjavajući deo:

The Balkanization: 2270 to 2320. Mars-Earth tension, aggression, and cold war for control of the solar system; Mars isolationism; Venus internal strife; decision in the Jovian moons to terraform their big three; proliferation of the unaffiliated terraria, and the disappearance of many populations behind "event horizons"; influence of qubes; volatile shortages pinching harder, causing hoarding, then tribalism; tragedy of the commons redux; splintering into widespread "self-sufficient" enclave city-states.
The term "hyperbalkanization" Shortback considers just an artifact of overheated rhetoric in cultural studies.
She has said, however, that a significant prolongation of the Balkanization could perhaps lead to a period worse than the Ritard, or even the Crisis—perhaps a time that could be called the Atomization, or the Dissolution.
She tells a story about how once in a talk she suggested that the entirety of the last millennium could be called the late feudal period, and afterward a man came up to her and said, "What makes you think it's late?"
But what happened in 2312 suggests that the twenty-fourth century will mark a turn.

I eto, svež i mlađan mem. Sad me kopka njegovo poreklo, da li mu je ćale upravo Foster u Meat Puppets? Ako neko od vas naleti na info, nek postuje ovde. Hvala. 

[Irena Adler]

Ne znam koliko ima veze sa kontekstom, ali izraz balkanizacija se na engleskom odavno koristi u značenju usitnjavanje, gloženje itd. Ja sam na to nailazila dosta puta u stručnoj literaturi. Hoću u stvari da kažem da to nije (u jeziku, za noviji sf sam popriličan duduk), naročito nova stvar, nego se koristi recimo od Prvog svetskog rata ili tako nekako.

[PTY]

Da, "balkanizacija" ima dobro staro značenje već 2 veka, ali ovo je vrlo interesantna post-kiberpank upotreba koja više predstavlja "adversarial relationship to consensus reality" negoli ono klasično geo-političko značenje koje je termin do sada imao.