跨躯体时空的物质伦理——斯坦格雷伯《生活在下游》研究

Material Ethics in Trans-Corporeal Time and Space:A Study of Steingraber's Living Downstream

桑德拉·斯坦格雷伯的《生活在下游》体现了斯塔西·阿莱莫所说的物质伦理。作品承袭了蕾切尔·卡森《寂静的春天》中的社会责任与环境正义感,披露了人造有毒化学物质的生产与使用对人与环境产生的危害,揭示了身体与地方、人类与非人类、生命与非生命的内在物质联系,倡导探寻生态之根,呼吁社会各界遵守"预防原则",控制有毒物质的生产与流通,体现了跨躯体时空的物质伦理及其注重伦理实践的特点。

Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream embodies what Stacy Alaimo called material ethics.Having inherited the social responsibility and environmental justice from Racheal Carson’s Silent Spring,the work discloses the harm to people and the environment from the production and use of man-made toxic chemicals.It reveals the internal material relationship between body and place,human and non-human,the biotic and the non-biotic.It advocates finding one’s ecological roots,and calls on all sectors of the society to abide by“precautionary principle”and to control the production and circulation of toxins,which embodies the precautionary principle and the emphasis on ethic practice of the material ethics in trans-corporeal time and space.