传播为轴,回归混沌:塞尔的信使传播哲学探要

Communication as an Axis, Back to Chaos: The Philosophy of Messenger Communication of Michel Serres

法国媒介理论学者米歇尔·塞尔所建构的传播哲学,诠释了媒介中介性、噪音与混沌等信息传播与媒介研究的核心问题,进而打破了传统传播与媒介研究的界限,成为德法媒介理论研究的重要思想来源。本文以塞尔思想中的“信使”形象为主轴,通过描绘其所创建的“信使研究计划”来透视其传播哲学思想,并以作为本体论和作为方法论的赫尔墨斯为思考维度来勾勒其建立的“关系哲学”。在此基础上,将塞尔的传播思想与德布雷和克莱默尔等其他欧陆媒介学者的思想进行关联和对话,并思考在信使自身形式越发多元、媒介社会环境越发混乱的当下,塞尔的信使传播哲学具有什么样的理论和现实意义。

The philosophy of communication constructed by French media theorist Michel Serres illustrates the core issues of Communication and Media Research, such as media mediation, noise and chaos, thus breaking the boundaries of traditional communication and media research and becoming an important source of German and French media theories. Taking the image of “messenger” in Serres' s thoughts as the main axis, this paper depicts the “Messenger Research Project” created by Serres to understand his philosophy of communication and outlines the “Philosophy of Relations”established by Serres from the ontological and methodological dimensions of “Hermes”. Based on this, Relating and comparing Serres' s thoughts on communication with those of other continental media scholars such as Debray and Kr?mer. Finally, this paper considers the significance of Serres' messenger communication philosophy at a time when messengers are becoming more and more diverse and the social media environment is more and more chaotic.