巴特勒《创生三部曲》中的科技、环境与生命政治（英文）

Technology, the Environment and Biopolitics in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis

美国非裔女作家巴特勒的《创生三部曲》是一部后末世论小说。小说讲述核子危机后,硕果仅存的少数人类被具高科技的物种翁卡利类人拯救并封存起来,其目地与其种族延续有关。本文尝试从科技、环境与生命政治角度来讨论这三部曲背后所隐藏的宰制、剥削和殖民等内在问题,同时本文也将运用福柯和阿冈本的生命政治和聂珍钊的"伦理选择"来剖析赖莉丝的"伦理决定",期能走出科技、环境与生命政治的两难。

For critic Roger Luckhurst, African-American writer Octavia Bulter＇s trilogy of Xenogenesis（Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago） is about ＂the horror of miscegenation.＂ In Dawn, an African woman named Lilith Iyapo is awoken to the task of converting other humans to trade with the Oankali in this post-apocalyptic otherworld. In Adulthood Rites, the protagonist Akin is a genetically engineered offspring of five parents（two humans, two Oankali, and one Ooloi）; and in Imago, Jodahs is an Ooloi who controls the evolution of racial science. Through the destablization of binary thinking between the human and the alien, Butler＇s Xenogenesis has demonstrated a Harawayan cyborg writing about the importance of hybridized identities that renders survival possible. In this essay, I argue against a moral reading of the technological advances as adumbrated in the trilogy. For my part, the trilogy aims at moving beyond Michel Foucault＇s technology of the self and Giorgio Agamben＇s biopolitics in the hope that the ethicopolitical dilemma can be resolved.