元宇宙的明与暗--元宇宙作为“事件”及其双重面向

The Bright and Dark Sides of the Meta-universe--The Meta-universe as An “Event” and Its Dual Faces

元宇宙是近来席卷学术与社会各个领域的重大事件。对于这个事件,除了从实证的方面进行全面描述之外,还需要从哲学的角度展开深刻反思。由此我们试图首先引入“媒介事件”这个概念,进而揭示出元宇宙之事件所体现出的连续性生成和否定性断裂这两个看似对立的鲜明特征。接下来,我们将通过德勒兹和德里达的事件理论之间的比较,深入阐释内在性和超越性、肯定和否定、连续与断裂这一系列既对立又相关的双重面向,再结合本体论、时间性和主体性这三个要点,由此导向对元宇宙事件之双重性的哲学阐明。如果说内在性的肯定面向最终导向尼采式的生命乐观主义,那么,超越性的否定立场则最终导向萨克尔式的宇宙悲观主义。元宇宙,理应是从悲观转向乐观、从绝望中唤醒希望的哲学事件。

The meta-universe is a major event that has swept through all fields of academia and society recently. For this event, in addition to a comprehensive description from the empirical perspective, we also need to launch a profound reflection from the perspective of philosophy. Therefore, we try to introduce the concept of “media event” first, and then reveal the two seemingly opposite distinctive features that it embodies, namely continuous generation, and negative fracture. Our next step is to make a comparison between Deleuze’s and Derrida’s event theories, with an aim to deeply explain a series of contradictory and related dual aspects, namely, internality and transcendence, affirmation and negation, continuity and rupture, and combine the three main points of ontology, timeliness and subjectivity, thus leading to the philosophical clarification of the duality of meta cosmic events. If the affirmation of internality ultimately leads to Nietzsche’s life optimism, the negation of transcendence ultimately results in Sacker’s cosmic pessimism. The meta universe should be a philosophical event that turns from pessimism to optimism, and that awakens hope from despair.