媒介考古学

Media Archaeology:A Keyword in Critical Theory

自基特勒在20世纪80年代的开创性研究以降,媒介考古学作为一种游牧主义的跨学科思潮已经遍及欧美人文学界,并在很大程度上促成了人文研究在数字时代的媒介技术转向。在福柯的考古学与谱系学方法的影响下,媒介考古学是一种通过挖掘物质性的历史谱系来开启另类未来的知识战略,其基本特点是反线性的时间观与反阐释学的批评观。然而在实践过程中,媒介考古学逐渐走上了去历史化与去政治化的道路,其自身的日益流行也症候性地凸显了西方人文学界在数字媒介时代所面临的困境。

Since Friedrich Kittler's groundbreaking research in the 1980s,media archaeology,as a nomadic interdisciplinary trend of thought,has spread throughout the humanities circles in Europe and the United States,and has greatly promoted the shift of media technology in humanities research in the digital age.Under the influence of Foucault's archaeology and genealogy approach,media archaeology is an intellectual strategy to open up alternative futures by excavating historical genealogy of materiality,and its basic characteristics are anti-linear time perspective and anti-hermeneutic criticism.However,in the process of practice,media archaeology has gradually embarked on the path of de-historicization and de-politicization,and the increasing popularity of media archaeology itself also symptomatically highlights the dilemma faced by the Western humanities circles in the digital age.