关键词: 饥饿游戏; 空间暴力政治; 权力; 大众传媒; 异乌托邦

Abstract: The Hunger Games, a current popular dystopian fiction written by American writer Suzanne Collins, reveals the social crises of the post-capitalism time. It stirs up the harsh criticism for its many violent depictions, but it is the depictions of violence that make it special. From a critical viewpoint of aesthetics of violence, this paper tries to use the theory of violence of post-Marxist Slavoj Zizek to analyze and dig out that the essential root of the crises in the novel is the capitalism system itself in the post capitalist era. The extreme desire of capitalism is to occupy extreme capital space that leads to the building up of the totalitarian governance at the base of spatial violent politics in the novel. The spatial isolation becomes the most necessary device for making biggest profits; while violence becomes the most effective security to remain the spatial isolation. The close union of multiple violence and spatial isolation becomes the strongest foundation of the totalitarianism of capitalist society. Then it becomes the impressive theme of the aesthetics of violence of the novel—how the governed can employ the violence of the other’s to break the spatial isolation and destroy the totalitarian system of the social mainstream to win back their own liberty. Therefore, the aesthetics of violence in the novel is full of power of critical aesthetics with violence against violence. Based on such critical aesthetics of violence, the forces of self-consciousness and self-activity of the disciplined others are awakening for their subjective rights on the way when violence against violence.

Keywords: The Huger Games; spatial violent politics; power; mass media; dystopia