生死联结:虚拟空间中悼念情感的持久镌刻

The Bonds of the Living and the Dead:The Continuing Engraving of Mourning Emotions in Virtual Space

当悼念不再局限于实体空间,而是延伸到可以在虚拟世界随时随地进行的时候,无论哀悼者通过建立数字公墓,还是借助逝者遗存的数字痕迹开展悼念活动,都会让生者与逝者、生者与生者之间产生持久的情感联系。作为持续联系的基础,逝者留下的数字痕迹被生者赋能并产生影响,这些痕迹不再只是单纯的符号,它们参与了生者的文化和记忆塑造,成为修复彼此之间社会与心理裂缝的一部分。生者之间的共情给予哀悼的情感以永恒的存续力量。随着时间的流逝,生者悼念的也许不再是拥有鲜活生命记忆的逝者,而是某种具有象征意义的符号,它镌刻于持久联结的互动关系中,成为生者与逝者、生者与生者情感延续的一种媒介,赋予赛博空间的哀思以永不枯朽的动力。

When mourning is no longer confined to physical space and extends to the virtual world where it can take place anytime,anywhere,whether mourners carry out mourning activities through the establishment of digital cemeteries or with the help of the digital traces left behind by the dead,it creates a kind of enduring emotional bonds between the living and the dead,and between the living and the living.As the basis for continuing bonds,the digital traces left behind by the dead are empowered and impacted by the living;these traces are no longer mere symbols;they participate in shaping the culture and memory of the living and become part of repairing the social and psychological rifts between them.The empathy between the living gives the emotion of mourning the power of eternal survival.As time passes,what the living mourn may no longer be the dead with vivid memories of their lives,but rather symbolic signs that are engraved in the interactions of continuing bonds,becoming the medium for the continuation of emotions between the living and the dead,between the living and the living,and giving mourning in Cyberspace an everlasting power.