数字化生存的双重逻辑及其限度

Double Logic and Limitations of the Digital Life

数字经济的崛起及与之相伴随的数字技术的更新换代共同推动了当代社会生产方式、生活方式的剧烈变革。人类在体验数字技术广泛应用带来的便捷和高效的同时,也深陷数字化生存之网。时间和空间的被剥夺、社会凝聚力的消解以及算法技术的隐蔽操控,凡此种种显示了数字技术对当代人类生存世界的深度介入和重塑。在资本主义生产方式下,垄断资本的过剩积累、低利率环境下金融资本对数字基础设施的投资以及借助信息控制市场的迫切需要,既造就了数字化生存的历史性生成,也彰显了数字化生存背后的资本逻辑。立足于唯物史观的历史性视域,数字化生存既有其来历,也存在着自身的限度。对数字化生存的思考必须立足于把握资本逻辑与数字技术相互勾连的内在机制之基础上。

The rise of digital economy and the continuing development of digital technology have jointly brought drastic changes in the mode of production and way of life in contemporary society.While people are enjoying the convenience and efficiency brought by the widespread application of digital tech-nology,they are also deeply trapped in the network of digital life,such as deprivation of time and space,loss of social cohesion,and covert manipulation of algorithm technology.All these show that the digital technology has deeply got involved in and reshaped people's contemporary life.In the capitalist mode of production,it is an urgent need for the financial capital to invest in digital infrastructure and control the market in the form of information in the context of excess accumulation of monopoly capital and a low interest rate.This has not only made the digital life a reality but also highlighted the capital logic behind the digital life.From the historical materialism perspective,digital life has its own development path and definitely has its limitations as well.A reflection on digital life must take into account the internal mecha-nism of correlation between capital logic and digital technology.