身体界线的历史演进与后人类的建构趋向——凯瑟琳·海勒的后人类思想研究

Historical Evolution of the Body Boundary and Trend of Post-human Construction:A Study of Katherine Hayles′Post-human Thought

凯瑟琳·海勒从控制论的历史发展中探索后人类观念的建构,描绘了人类身体界线的变化历程与动力基础,探索了具形与书写、技术、意识形态并行的异质空间,揭示了身体的物质性与信息技术的连通变化与交互建构,展现了自由人文主义的主体边界如何被拓展为后人类意识的过程。海勒将人类与后人类理解为从各种技术、文化的外在形态中显现出来的历史性特定结构,剖析了“人类”与“后人类”如何共存于一个不断变换的结构之中,探寻人类与后人类的连续与断裂。海勒清除了后人类威胁论,强调人类主体边界的拓展与重新认知,人类向后人类的演变具有积极的前景与意义,有助于扩张人类功能与塑造人类形象。海勒的探索促进了关于科技与人文之关系的前瞻性思考,推动了后人类思潮中建构论的深入发展,彰显了后人类思想的建构特色与理想追求。

Catherine Hayles explored the construction of post-human concepts from the historical development of cybernetics,depicted the changing course and dynamic basis of human body boundaries,and explored a heterogeneous space in which embodiment parallels to writing,technology,and ideology.She revealed the connected changes and interactive constructions of the materiality of the body and information technology,and showed how the subject boundary of liberal humanism can be extended to post-human consciousness.Hayles interpreted humans and post-humans as a historical specific structure manifesting from external forms of various technologies and cultures,analyzed how humans and post-humans coexist in a constantly changing structure,and explored the continuity and fracture of them.She cleared the post-human threat theory and emphasized the expansion and re-cognition of human subject boundaries.The evolution from humans to post-humans has positive prospects and meanings,which will help expand human functions and shape human images.Hayles′exploration promoted the forward thinking on the relationship between technology and humanities,promoted the in-depth development of constructivism in the post-human ideological trend,and highlighted the constructive characteristics and ideal pursuit of post-human thought.