新科技革命与后人类时代的社会理论构建

New Revolution of Science and Technology and Reconstruction of Social Theory in the Post-human Era

每一次科技革命都会带来社会生活的变化,而每一次社会生活的变化也需要构造属于不同时代的社会理论。在人类的前三次科技革命中,我们分别建构了市民社会理论、古典社会理论和后现代社会理论。随着以数字技术、生物技术和智能技术为代表的第四次科技革命的来临,自启蒙以来的人的概念遭到了前所未有的冲击,因而我们需要突破传统的人的范畴,也需要突破建立在这种范畴基础上的各种社会理论谱系。对应于第四次科技革命,我们需要重建一个新的社会理论,我们可以称之为后人类的社会理论。这一社会理论已经明显将生物社会性、新生命形态和社会加速批判作为其主要的内容。随着数字技术、生物技术和智能技术进一步的发展,我们相信后人类的社会理论会进一步完善,成为理解未来社会最重要的理论范式。

Every revolution of science and technology will bring about changes in social life,and every change in social life also requires the construction of social theories belonging to different eras.In the first three scientific and technological revolutions,we constructed civil society theory,classical social theory and postmodern social theory respectively.With the advent of the fourth scientific and technological revolution represented by digital technology,biotechnology and intelligent technology,the concept of human beings since the enlightenment has been hit unprecedentedly.Therefore,we need to break through the traditional human category and also need to break through the various social theory pedigrees based on this category.So,corresponding to the fourth scientific and technological revolution,we need to rebuild a new social theory,which we can call a post-human social theory.This social theory has obviously taken bio-sociality,new life forms and social accelerated criticism as its main content.With the further development of digital technology,biotechnology and intelligent technology,we believe that the post-human social theory will be further improved and become the most important theoretical paradigm for understanding the future society.