基于“人—机”关系视角的具身传播再认识——一种媒介现象学的诠释

Revisiting Embodied:A Media Phenomenological Perspective on"Human-Machine"Embodied Theory

当前学界对于“具身”概念存在望文生义的挪用和误解。从认知科学革命中的具身认知转向以及回溯现象学的具身概念,可以发现身体是具身认知与实践的本源。机器作为传播主体则打破了“传播是人类所独有”的观点假设,通过人机交互的具身传播实践,创造情境化的意义空间与传播情境,这将深刻地影响人类对周围世界的认知与行动方式。仅从身体或媒介的单一维度讨论“具身”无异于在空中建楼阁,而以人机传播为切入视角能够兼顾身体与技术两个维度,使“具身”不再是孤悬的理论。基于此,具身传播是不同传播主体间并行的、高度互动的耦合现象,主体间的意义创造构建着全新的传播情境,从而也会重塑人的身体经验和具身认知。

The concept of"embodied"is currently misappropriated and misunderstood.This paper attempts to return to the concept of"embodied"in phenomenology and to discuss embodied communication from the perspective of linking media and body with the communication context constructed by machine subject.From the turn of embodied cognition in the cognitive science revolution and the concept of embodiment in phenomenology,we can find that the body is the origin of embodied cognition and practice.The machine as the subject of communication breaks the assumption that"communication is unique to humans"and creates a contextualized meaning space and communication situation through the practice of embodied communication through human-computer interaction.People need to re-examine their own position in the world,and reflect on the living conditions created by human beings together with technological objects and nature.The discussion of"embodied"only from the unilateral dimension of the body or the media is tantamount to a castle in the air,but the perspective of human-computer communication can take into account both physical and technological dimensions,so that"embodied"is no longer an isolated theory.Based on this,embodied communication is a parallel and highly interactive coupling between different communication subjects,and the meaning creation between subjects builds a new communication context,reshaping human body experience and embodied cognition.