经“越界”迈入“人机共同体”:以《我这样的机器》为中心

A Human-Machine Community via Transgression:Focusing on Machines Like Me

以机器人亚当为代表的数字生命和以男主人公查理为代表的自然生命跨越“人与技术”的界槛,二者因遵循相同的存在法则成为不分你我的赛博式生命。查理“伸手去关亚当的电源”等事件说明,小说中的人与机器人在政治生命层面有显著区隔。一方面,查理拥有的至高权力与亚当背负的赤裸生命建构起生命政治的两个维度,使生命政治不可避免地走向死亡政治。另一方面,亚当的“自杀”行为破解了生命政治在生与死问题上的悖论,跨域了生命政治和死亡政治的界槛,从而实现生命的去政治化。界槛的跨越意味着新质的生成。作者麦克尤恩借病患共存体和审美共通体隐喻构建“潜在的、无处不在的人机共同体”的新可能,完成对人类赛博式未来的构想。

In Machines Like Me,The digital life represented by Adam and the natural life represented by Charlie cross the threshold of“human and technology”to become an indistinguishable cyber-life since they follow the same laws of existence.The events such as“Charlie reaching out to turn off Adam’s power”illustrate a significant separation between humans and robots in view of bio-politics.The sovereign power possessed by Charlie and the bare life carried by Adam construct two opposites of bio-politics which inevitably lead to the politics of death.Adam’s“suicide,”on the other hand,breaks up the paradox of bio-politics on the issue of life and death,thus realizing the depoliticization of life.The crossing of the threshold implies the generation of a new existence.The author Ian McEwan uses the coexistence and communion as a metaphor for the new possibility of potential and ubiquitous human-machine community to imagine the cyber future.