化用、承认和扰沌:数字时代自我意识的形态

Appropriation,Recognition and Panarchy:Variations of Self-Consciousness in Digital Era

在数字时代如何面对幽灵般的他者,需要回到黑格尔关于他者的思考那里。黑格尔区分了两种不同的他者,一种作为对象的他者,即第一他者,自我意识通过对对象的否定,实现了物的化用,从而实现了在自我意识的循环。但是,一个自我意识还会遇到另一个自我意识的他者,通过“生死较量”,两个自我意识之间形成了主奴关系,在奴隶对主人的承认之中,奴隶将自身非本质化,成为主人的代理人,即第二他者,从而保障了主人自我意识的圆满。在今天的数字时代,我们面对的是第三种他者,一方面不能还原为纯粹的物质对象,另一方面通过智能算法和大数据与我们进行交流,这就是第三他者的概念。面对第三他者,唯一能保障自我意识地位的方式是扰沌。扰沌是一种不确定的隐喻性概念,它提供了一种通向未来数字世界的自我意识形态的路径。

The question of how to confront the spectral Other in the digital age returns to Hegel s reflection on the Other.In fact,Hegel distinguishes two different kinds of otherness.The first Other is an Other as an object.Through the negation of the object,self-consciousness realizes the utilization of things,thus realizing the cycle of self-consciousness.However,one self-consciousness will also encounter another self-conscious other,and through a“life-and-death struggle”,a master-slave relationship is formed between the two self-consciousnesses.In the slave s recognition of the master,the slave de-substantializes himself and becomes the agent of the master,thus guaranteeing the consummation of the master s self-consciousness.In the digital age,we are confronted with a third Other.On the one hand,it is irreducible to a pure material object,and on the other hand,it communicates with us through intelligent algorithms and big data.This is the concept of the third Other.The only way to secure the status of self-consciousness in the face of the third Other is panarchy,an indeterminate metaphorical concept that offers a path to a future form of self-consciousness in the digital world.