“上帝之死”与“元宇宙热”--一个拉康主义分析

The Death of God and the Fanaticism of Metaverse:A Lacanian Analysis

晚近关于元宇宙的讨论热度极高。在拉康主义开启的分析性视角中,此种“元宇宙热”始于一种越出符号秩序的死亡驱力,这意味着元宇宙的“崇高化”。进而,从现代性与互联网两个层面的“上帝之死”背景出发,可以发现:在现代性宣告“上帝之死”后,上帝无法再作为大他者之具身为人提供神学安慰,迈向元宇宙实乃人在自身“崇高化”过程中的“创世”冲动与自我确证。在赛博空间中,“不存在上帝,一切都不被允许”,但这一退却的“上帝”将在元宇宙中以数字大他者的面目返场,人因此倾向于下降为数字“白痴”。这样一来,迈向元宇宙的行为可能是一次“造神”而非“创世”。

The fanaticism of metaverse arrives recently.In a Lacanian analysis,the fanaticism of metaverse is caused by a kind of death drive beyond the Symbolic,which means the“sublimation”of metaverse.Furthermore,against the background of the death of God in modernity and Internet,we can find that after the death of God,God can no longer provide theological comfort as an embodiment of the Other,and the fanaticism of metaverse is actually the impulse of“creation of God”and the self-confirmation of human beings in their own“sublimation”process.In cyberspace,“there is no God,everything is not allowed”,but this retreating“God”will return in metaverse as the digital Other,so people tend to descend into digital“idiots”.Therefore,the fanaticism of metaverse may be a“creation of God”rather than a“creation of universe”.