米歇尔·福柯、技术和行动者网络理论

Michel Foucault,technology,and Actor-Network Theory

米歇尔·福柯作为社会理论家的地位毋庸置疑,但人们却常常低估他作为技术理论家的重要性。通过考察福柯的著作和他接受的访谈,追踪他在行动者网络理论内部的影响,本文探讨了福柯关于技术的思想的丰富性和广度。本文认为,如果不理解技术在福柯的著作中的核心地位,我们就不可能充分理解福柯,而如果不了解福柯,我们就不能理解行动者网络理论。

While Michel Foucault's significance as a social theorist is undisputed,his importance as a technological theorist is frequently overlooked.This article considers the richness and the range of Foucault's technological thinking by surveying his works and interviews,and by tracking his influence within Actor-Network Theory(ANT).The argument is made that we will not fully understand Foucault without understanding the central place of technology in his work,and that we will not understand ANT without understanding Foucault.