Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange(ICLACE 2022)

Postmodern Nihilism, Motion, and the Space of Postmodern Warfare

Authors
Luanming Xing*
Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078
*Corresponding author. Email: 19098537u011008@student.must.edu.mo
Corresponding Author
Luanming Xing
Available Online 14 July 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220706.007How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Nihilism; Motion; New machine; Postmodernism
Abstract

Few studies have established a link between ‘motion’, ‘nihilism’, and the ‘new machine’, although nihilism is a typical psychological feature in postmodern texts and the alienation of the new machine is a factor that cannot be ignored. This essay analyses the nihilistic tendencies of the characters and their unconscious movements in the postmodern war space in Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five by applying the ‘new machine’ perspective proposed by Fredric Jameson in The Cultural Turn. With reference to Khatin-Zadeh Omid’s understanding of movement and non-movement, Fredric Jameson’s point remains valid within the macro-concept of movement, which includes the transient cessation of movement. This research will provide a new interpretation of the visualisation of nihilistic tendencies within characters in postmodern texts.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange(ICLACE 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
14 July 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-592-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220706.007How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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