ORTAK İSYANLA ARINAN CEMAAT: J. G. BALLARD'IN HIGH-RISE ROMANINDA DİSTOPYAYA GİDEN YOLU YENİDEN ÇİZMEK

Year 2020, Volume: 60 Issue: 1, 97 - 118, 01.01.2020

İsmail Serdar Altaç

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı J. G. Ballard'ın High-Rise adlı romanında şiddete giden yolu belirlemektir. Bilim ve distopya unsurlarını geleceğe ve başka bir yere değil de buraya ve şimdiye yerleştiren bir roman olarak High-Rise, okuru kendi inşa edilmiş çevresinden yabancılaştırır. Odak noktasında homojen bir topluluk/cemaat bulunan roman kentlerin mekânsal olarak ayrışmasına neden olan kentsel söylemleri sorgular. Romanın yerinin Londra olması nedeniyle kurmaca ve gerçeklik arasındaki geçişkenlikten dolayı bu çalışma ilk olarak edebiyat ve mekânsal beşeri bilimler arasında yok olan sınırları ve sonrasında da ütopya ve distopya arasında yok olan sınırları kısaca tartışacaktır. İkinci olarak, Richard Sennett'in kent anlayışı kuramsal bir çerçeve olarak kullanılarak toplumsal ilişkilerde homojenliğin romanda yol açtığı olumsuz neticeler belirlenecektir. Üçüncü olarak ise, can sıkıntısı olgusuna ve işbirliği yetersizliğine vurgu yapılarak güvenli olduğu farz edilen topluluğun dağılmasında ekonomik refahın rolü ortaya koyulacaktır. Bu şekilde, okurun gündelik çevresinde gizli ihtimalleri ortaya çıkaran distopyanın uyarıcı yönü kullanılarak Ballard çalışmalarına katkıda bulunulması amaçlanmaktadır.

Keywords

J. G. Ballard, Richard Sennett, High- Rise, Arınmış Cemaatler, Distopya

COMMUNITY PURIFIED BY COM-MUTINY: REMAPPING THE PATH TO DYSTOPIA IN J.G. BALLARD'S HIGH-RISE

Abstract

This paper aims to map the path leading to violence in J. G. Ballard's High-Rise. Being a science fiction and dystopian fiction which locates these elements, not in the future and somewhere else, but here and now, the novel defamiliarizes the reader from his/her built environment. With a homogenous community at its center, the novel problematizes the urban discourses that culminate in spatial segregation of the cities. Due to the transgressive nature of the novel between fiction and reality, as London is the location of the novel, this paper will shortly deal with the blurring boundaries between the literature and the spatial humanities, and those between utopia and dystopia. Secondly, the negative outcomes of the homogeneity in social relations will be identified in the novel by using Richard Sennett's urbanism as a theoretical framework. Thirdly, the role of the affluence in the disintegration of the supposedly safe community will be revealed with an emphasis on the phenomenon of boredom and lack of cooperation. In this way, the paper will seek to contribute to Ballardian studies, using the cautionary aspect of the dystopia that unearths the latent possibilities buried in the quotidian environment.

Keywords

J. G. Ballard, Richard Sennett, High- Rise, Purified Communities, Dystopia

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