物质至关重要:一段哲学序言

MATTER MATTERS: A PHILOSOPHICAL PREFACE

本文探讨了由墨西哥裔美国哲学家曼纽尔·德兰达(Manuel De Landa)所发展的新唯物主义理论,他本人深受法国哲学家吉勒斯·德勒兹(Gilles Deleuze)的思想影响。本文将他的开创性著作《千年非线性史》中的唯物主义观点与后现代书籍中(如《向拉斯维加斯学习:被遗忘的建筑形式的象征主义》)对表象、符号和涵义的强调进行了对比。本文认为德兰达的思想不仅使我们超越后现代主义的非物质化、透视性思维方式,还表现出对科学和技术更加亲近的态度,并且为我们以物质的角度思考世界提供了新的范式,并延伸到整个社会生活中。

Matter Matter explores the theory of New Materialism developed by the Mexican-American philosopher,Manuel DeLanda,who was himself highly influenced by the ideas of French philosopher,Gilles Deleuze.The article contrasts the materialist ideas in his seminal book,A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History,to the emphasis on representation,symbols and meaning in postmodern books such as Learning from Las Vegas.It argues that not only do DeLanda's ideas move us beyond the dematerialized,scenographic thinking of postmodernism and offer a more sympathetic approach to science and technology,but that they also offer a new paradigm for thinking about the world in material terms that extends to the whole of social life.