摘要
理查德·鲍尔斯小说《快乐基因》以21世纪基因组学的发展为背景,呈现了具体的基因科技研究由实验室走向现实世界医学实践的过程。借助近些年学界有关超人类话语与主体性的讨论,本文考察鲍尔斯对超人类愿景在面临资本和市场时遭遇困境的演绎,认为作者通过揭示超人类主义“人类增强”主体观思想的内在局限性,展望了一种人类与科技共生的关系性主体建构可能,并以此探索和回应了社会发展中有关科技与人文“两种文化”之间的争论。
Richard Powers's novel Generosity:An Enhancement presents the process of specific genetic technology studies moving from the laboratory to real-world medical practice against the backdrop of the development of genomics in the 21st century.Drawing on the recent academic discussions about transhuman discourse and subjectivity,this paper examines the interpretation of the dilemma in which the vision of the transhuman is confronted with capital and the market.It argues that the author envisions the possibility of a relational subject with symbiosis of human and science and technology by revealing the inherent limitations of the transhumanist idea of“human enhancement”of the subject,and in this way explores and responds to the debate between the“two cultures”of science and technology and humanity in the development of society.
