意识迷途与存在之痛:论斯蒂格勒的记忆工业批判

Lost Consciousness and Pain of Existence:On Stiegler′s Critique of Memory Industry

当今时代记忆工业发展迅速,生产了大量的工业记忆商品。对记忆产品的工业化复制和商业贩卖,使得工业记忆侵入到意识领域,构成人们的意识内容。工业记忆参与到人的意识建构,昭示着“记忆取代意识”的意识危机。人们共同接受工业生产的记忆商品,标志着个体意识的同质化趋向和自我意识的丧失。这使得个体难以表明自我存在,渐渐丧失价值判断的能力,出现情感、思想、欲求上的缺失。然而,没有记忆商品能够彻底替代意识行使功能,个体始终承受着存在之痛的撕扯,仍需寻找存在的意义。因此,如何抵抗记忆工业的意识侵蚀,创造自身存在的意义,成为抛向个体的疑难。关键就在于要准确区分意识和记忆,以及借助记忆技术来重拾自身的独特性,获得崭新的自我意识构成。

In today′s era,the memory industry is developing rapidly,producing a large number of industrial memory commodities.The industrial replication and commercial sale of memory products have led to the invasion of industrial memory into the realm of consciousness,constituting the content of people′s consciousness.Industrial memory participates in the formation of people′s consciousness,indicating a crisis of consciousness where memory replaces consciousness.People′s shared acceptance of memory commodities from industrial production marks the homogenization trend of individual consciousness and the loss of individual self-awareness.This makes it difficult for individuals to express their own existence,and gradually they lose their ability to judge values,which leads to the loss of their emotions,thoughts,and desires.However,there is no memory commodity that can completely replace consciousness in exercising its functions.Each individual is still bearing the pain of existence to search for the meaning of existence.Therefore,how to resist the invasion of consciousness from the memory industry and create the meaning of one′s own existence have become a challenge for individuals.The solution lies in accurately distinguishing consciousness and memory,and using memory technology to rediscover one′s uniqueness and gain a brand new form of self-awareness.