《物治理:福柯与新物质主义》中的关联物质主义刍议

On the Relational Materialism in Thomas Lemke's The Government of Things:Foucaultand the New Materialisms

莱姆克的《物治理:福柯与新物质主义》是当今新物质主义研究的最新力作之一。该书以哈曼的物导向本体论、本尼特的活力物质主义和芭拉德的能动现实主义三种典型的新物质主义理论为基础,不仅梳理了新物质主义研究“本体论的物-活力论的物-关联论的物”的发展轨迹,而且借助福柯的“物治理”概念和科学技术研究方法,提出了“关联物质主义”和“生物政治”的设想,克服了三种理论的局限性,拓展了新物质主义的研究视野,为后疫情时代和后人类世的文学研究提供了新的理论指导。

Thomas Lemke's The Government of Things:Foucault and New Materialisms is one of the latest works of New Materialism.Based on Graham Harman's"object-oriented ontology,"Jane Bennett's"vital materialism"and Karen Ballad's"agential realism,"Lemke's book not only sketches a trajectory of"ontological things-vibrant thingsrelational things"in the development of new materialism,but also introduces a concept of"relational mterialism"and"biological politics"by using Foucault's"government of things"and STS method.The book hence explores new horizons for the development of New Materialism and discovers a new theoretical guide for literary criticism in the postpandemic era and post Anthropocene.