算法时间的考辨与文化否思

Research on Algorithmic Time and Its Rethinking

时间是社会建构的产物,算法嵌入的平台社会产生了新的时间制度——算法时间。算法时间构成了一种新的、强大的时间性,成为人们平台生活的计量器和调度器。从媒介考古学的视野来考察,技术会形成嵌入物质世界的文化干预,内嵌算法技术的计算装置会改变人的“内在时间感”。在算法时间的加速逻辑下,越来越精细的计算模型创造出越来越丰富的文化事实,与此同时,算法时间的离散机制通过对个性化时刻的强推,结合平台商业目的,制造出符合用户偏好的适当时机。当人们把时间的生产拱手让给算法机器时,就会成为算法时间生态系统中最脆弱的环节。增加算法透明度,打破平台资本主义与计算主义文化之间的勾连,是摆脱技术时间操控、重拾多样态时间节律的关键。

Since time is a product of social construction,the society embedded with algorithmic platforms has produced a new temporal system—the algorithmic time.Algorithmic time constitutes a fresh and powerful temporality that becomes the meter and scheduler of people s platform life.From the perspective of media archaeology,this technology will bring about cultural intervention embedded into the material world,and computing devices embedded with algorithm technology will change people s“inner sense of time”.With acceleration as the logic of algorithmic time,the more and more sophisticated computational models enriches cultural facts increasingly.Meanwhile,the discrete mechanism of algorithmic time creates appropriate opportunities that meet the user s preferences through the forced promotion of personalized moments,combined with the commercial purposes of the platform.When people give up the production of time to algorithmic machines,they become the most vulnerable link in the algorithmic time ecosystem.Enhancing the transparency of algorithms and breaking the link between platform capitalism and computationalist culture is the key to getting rid of the manipulation of technical time and regaining the diversity of time rhythms.