从“缺场共在”到“虚实共生”——元宇宙时代身体-技术的关系变迁

From“Absent Coexistence”to“Virtual-real Symbiosis”:The Changing Body-technology Relationship in the Metaverse Era

随着数字技术与人工智能的迅速发展,元宇宙作为Web3.0演进的重要方向将对人类社会秩序带来深刻影响。基于身体理论的研究视角,通过比较网络社会不同演进阶段的身体-技术关系特征,认为“身体在场”是贯穿网络技术和身体关系的轴线。前元宇宙的网络社会使得人类实践的经验事实分化为在场与缺场两层空间,缺场交往的兴起使得身体能超越地理空间的限制而形成“缺场共在”;元宇宙社会将进一步把人类实践的经验事实分化为现实、镜像与原生的三层空间,并通过现实肉身、机器假身和数字化身建构起以“三身交互”为特征的全新身体实践结构,由此生产出“虚实共生”的新社会图景。

This paper explores the relationship between digital technology and the body from the perspective of body theory.By comparing the characteristics of the body-technology relationship in different evolutionary stages of network society,the study argues that“body presence”serves as the central axis that runs through this relationship.In the pre-metaverse network society,empirical facts of human practices are divided into two spaces:presence and absence.The rise of absence interactions enables the body to transcend the limitations of geographic space and form“absent coexistence”.In the metaverse society,the empirical facts of human practice are further divided into three levels of reality,mirror,and primordial space.This division creates a new structure of bodily practice characterized by“three-body interaction”through the real body,the machine pseudo-body,and the digital body.As a result,a new social image of“virtual-real symbiosis”is produced.