أفكار وآفاق
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 211-227
2024-05-07
Worldbuilding Nea So Copros: Power Relations In David Mitchell’s “an Orison Of Sonmi-451”
Authors : Draa Lina Luiza . Kaced Assia .
Abstract
This paper discusses the construction of the fictional world of “An Orison of Sonmi-451”, one of the interwoven stories of David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas. In particular, it examines the political institutions and cultural artefacts and practices invented by the author to convey the philosophical ideas embedded in his work. The study is interested in the ideas of sovereign power and biopower as conceptualized by Michel Foucault and in how they are implemented by the government of Nea So Copros, a futuristic dystopia based on consumerism where corporations rule at the expense of individuals. Whereas in Foucault’s history of power, sovereign power and biopower do not normally coexist, this paper aspires to demonstrate how the combined use of these two powers, made possible through the creative license of worldbuilding, ineluctably condemns the lower strata of the system, the fabricants, to a life enslavement and an atrocious demise.
Keywords
An Orison of Sonmi-451 ; worldbuilding ; sovereign power ; biopower ; dystopia
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