后人类叙事与文明的未来——对C.S.路易斯科幻小说《黑暗之劫》的一种阐述

Post-human Narrative and the Future of Civilization:An Interpretation of That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

英国著名作家C.S.路易斯发表于1945年的科幻小说《黑暗之劫》对"后人类"问题有一种极富前瞻性的预测和探讨。他利用科幻小说的虚构特征,推测和阐释"后人类社会"可能发生的"人性"被黑暗势力洗劫,即人类的身体、意识和情感会逐渐被智能机器发明和科技思维崇拜所弃用或消解。他的这部科幻小说巧妙地在一种后人类语境中"探究生命意蕴",其独到之处在于运用双线叙事将科技的未来与欧洲古典时期、高科技成果与历史传说人物进行多维对照和奇幻穿越。在一场无法避免的未来正邪力量的决战之中,C.S.路易斯神奇地指引读者利用古典的"他者"立场,超越浅近的"过去"和短期的"未来"的束缚,去认同身心一体之人性和大于地球之宇宙规律存在的永恒性。

The science fiction That Hideous Strength published by the well-known English writer C.S.Lewis in 1945, has visionary prediction and discussion on the problem of Post-human. The imaginative characteristics of the science fiction is adopted by C.S. Lewis to speculate and explain that the nature of human being might be ruined by the dark side in the post-human society, namely the physical body, mind and emotion would be abolished or eliminated by the artificial intelligence and the scientism. This fiction explores the meaning of life in a post-human context in a smart and neat way. The uniqueness of the fiction lays on the utilization of two-line narrative to realize the multi-dimensional comparison between the future of science and technology and the classical time of Europe, and the achievements of high-tech and the legendary icons in history, and the fascinating reviving of the latter. In an inevitable final campaign between the good and evil, the readers are guided cleverly by the writer using the Other perspective of the classic to surpass the limit of the superficial "Past"and the short-sighted "Future", and to identify human essence with the mind and body harmonious and to recognize the eternity exists beyond the universe law of Earth.