一种从身体出发的技术一政治诗学——马苏米《虚拟的寓言》对当代文化研究范式的反思

A Techno-Political Poetics Built on the Body:On Brian Massumi's Parables of the Virtual

布莱恩·马苏米的著作《虚拟的寓言:运动、情感和感知》是当代西方文化理论领域中的重要作品。马苏米以"身体"和"虚拟"为中心,对当代文化理论以符号操作为中心的主体化理解进行了批判。马苏米认为,当代资本主义的权力机制不再遵循以语言-符号为中介的主体化逻辑,而是利用科学技术,通过对情感流动强度和方向的控制,达到对人的控制。而人却可以通过技术,在不断的客体化过程中,逃逸这种控制。因此,马苏米认为,在解释这种"控制-逃逸"逻辑的过程中,当代的文化理论,既是一种技术诗学,又成为一种政治抵抗。

Centered round his elucidation of the conceptsof ＂body＂ and ＂the virtual,＂ Massumi proposes a critique toward the understanding of the process of subjectivization dominated by the symbolic operations in his work Parables of the Virtual： Movement, Affections and Sensations. He assumes that contemporary capitalist power mechanism does not abide by the logic of subjectivization that is mediated by the symbolic order; instead, with help of technology, the capitalist power can control the human-beings by intervening the intensity and direction of human affections. The hope of escaping the control relies on the objectification of human beings during the evolution of technology. Through his examination of the control-escape logic, Massumi claims that contemporary cultural theory becomes both a poetics of technology and a kind of political resistance.