《硬科幻小说的复兴》中的后人文主义思想探析

A posthumanistic reading of The Hard Science Fiction Renaissance

短篇小说集《硬科幻小说的复兴》(2002)呈现出深沉的后人文主义思考。一方面,小说中塑造的赛博格形象展现了后人类社会可能出现的人类离身性问题、可能遭遇的人性和道德危机,以及由此带来的对于人类主体性的威胁;另一方面,小说中描写的太空殖民和太空战争体现了作者对传统科幻小说中浪漫的乌托邦想象的质疑和颠覆。在人类社会即将步入后人类时代的当下,硬科幻小说对于人类存在的反乌托邦表征和后人文主义思考具有重要的现实意义。

The anthology The Hard Science Fiction Renaissance(2002)provokes deep posthumanistic thinking.On the one hand,the cyborg image created in the novel reveals the possible disembodiment problems,the human and moral crisis and the threat to human subjectivity in the posthuman society.On the other hand,the space colonization and space war described in the novels reflect the questioning and subversion of the romantic utopian imagination in traditional science fictions.At a time when human society is about to enter the posthuman era,hard science fiction has important and practical significance for the posthumanistic thinking of human existence.