物体间性与新唯物主义的诞生——如何理解元宇宙中的“物”

Interobjectivity and the Birth of New Materialism:Understanding "Things" in the Metaverse

元宇宙不仅仅为我们开启了新技术的华章,也迫使我们对一些基本哲学概念重新进行反思,其中,物的理论成为元宇宙形而上学思考的一个重要问题。海德格尔从上手状态和天、地、神、人的映射游戏角度,赋予物一种外在性的神秘主义,而鲍德里亚的物体系和符号政治经济学批判,则将物变成了符号体系下的虚无主义。要在元宇宙中保留物的地位,同时不让其走向玄学化和虚无化,就必须提出一种新唯物主义。我们在塔尔德的人与人之间的模仿律基础上提出物的模仿律,对应主体间性,形成物体间性,并以此将物看成具有主动性的产生关联的物体间性体系。在这种物的模仿律之下,人与物都在其中形成了对应的关系,并在这个网络关系中,构成了整个万物的网络。这是新的万物理论,也是新唯物主义的诞生,是我们理解元宇宙下的物的可能途径。

The metaverse brings us not only a cadenza of new technology but also a reflection on some of the basic philosophical concepts. The theory of things becomes an important topic in the metaphysical studies in the metaverse. Seeing games from the perspective of Heidegger’s Vorhandenkeit and Geviert makes it externally mystical, while Baudrillard’s Le système des objets and Pour une critique de l’économie politique du signe turn things into nihilism under a symbolic system. To preserve the importance of things in the metaverse while not allowing them to go metaphysical or nihilistic, it is necessary to propose the new materialism. This article proposes the imitation between things based on Tarde’s imitation between men to form interobjectivity as opposed to intersubjectivity and see things as an active, related system of interobjectivity. In this system of imitation between things, men and things from relationships, and in this network of relationships, a network of everything is formed. It is a new theory of everything and the birth of new materialism, a possible way for us to understand things in the metaverse.