基特勒尔之后——德国最新媒介理论的文化技术研究

After Kittler—On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

文化技术是德国媒介研究领域的一个重要方面,本文旨在对其最新研究成果作简要的介绍与解读。对于媒介研究的发展和传统来说,著名理论家基特勒尔可谓功不可没,本文将从三个角度对与其密切相关的概念迁移展开分析:第一,20世纪八九十年代基特勒尔式的媒介理论在21世纪之初转向了更加行为学的分析方式;第二,德语中对于农业工程的过时指谓,在语言学的背景下进入媒介和文化研究的范畴;第三,媒介谱系在发展过程中不断探求新的研究领域,比如生命、生物政治以及行为等等,概念迁移在此过程中发挥了重要作用。

This paper offers a brief introduction and interpretation of recent research on cultural techniques（ or Kulturtechnikforschung） in German media studies. The analysis considers three sites of conceptual dislocations that have shaped the development and legacy of media research often associated with theorist Friedrich Kittler： first,the displacement of 1980 s and 1990 s Kittlerian media theory towards a more praxeological style of analysis in the early2000s; second,the philological background that allowed the antiquated German appellation for agricultural engineering,Kulturtechniken,to migrate into media and cultural studies; and third,the role of these conceptual dislocations in enriching media-genealogical inquiries into topics such as life,biopolitics,and practice.