The game lodge is an atavistic space that denies while capitalizing on postapartheid modernity

Evidence

The white game lodge is a classic instance of what Anne McClintock terms an anachronistic space, a space marked as noncoeval with the world around it and whose implication in modernity is suppressed. But here the spatial anachronism does not simply mark the game lodge as “backward” in a progress discourse indebted to a tendentiously selective imperial enlightenment; instead, the lodge’s refusal to acknowledge the contemporary renders it an atavistic space in denial of South Africa’s democratic transformation while simultaneously capitalizing on that transformation. We can read the game lodge, then, as a manifestation of the postapartheid nation’s suddenly expansive modern tourist industry and as a racialized and naturalized fortress against that very modernity. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 514

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies McClintock’s ‘anachronistic space’ and Nixon’s extension of it to ‘atavistic space in denial’ — a definitional distinction the chapter pivots on.
• XREF: Reads as a spatial-extraction analog: the lodge as an enclave temporal fortress parallel to ch32’s corporate ‘zoned Nowheres’ and the resource enclave in ch14, and connects to Soundscape’s loop of listening/observation-as-method. — connects to: The game lodge sells a blend of colonial time and prehuman natural time — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 514

Broader Connections

• The game lodge sells a blend of colonial time and prehuman natural time #expands (0.88) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 514