Aleph
Volume 12, Numéro 4, Pages 121-130
2025-12-25
Capitalist Space, Ecological Resistance: The Spatial Politics Of Hegemony In The Hyperion Cantos By Dan Simmons
Authors : Mansouri Haider Abderrahmane .
Abstract
This article examines Dan Simmons’s early Hyperion Cantos, specifically Hyperion (1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (1990) through a critical lens that synthesizes Henri Lefebvre’s production of space, David Harvey’s capitalist spatial logic, and Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence. The analysis argues that the Hegemony’s engineered and commodified environments are symptoms of the capitalist doctrine spread by the Imperialsit Hegemony which are systematically disrupted by ecological counterforces. The Ousters, the Time Tombs, the Shrike and the Metasphere are read not only as narrative devices but as critical sites of resistance, articulating an alternative spatial order that challenges imperial and capitalist domination. In reconfiguring perception, space and time, these phenomena expose the latent ecological violence at the heart of interplanetary imperialism and offer a prescient commentary on environmental degradation.
Keywords
Capitalist Space ; Ecological Resistance ; Spatial Politics ; Hegemony ; unnatural spaces
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