摘要
威廉·吉布森在《虚拟偶像爱朵露》中将大数据与大众文化相结合,想象了一个充满拟像的消费社会。小说围绕歌星雷兹迎娶虚拟偶像东英零这一不可能的二进制婚姻事件,通过天才分析师莱尼和少女歌迷琪雅探寻真相构成双线叙事,展现了科技对传统伦理空间、伦理主体和伦理关系的影响。莱尼和琪雅为代表的两条伦理线体现了不同的伦理观念和伦理选择,莱尼对“欲望机器”的主体性产生质疑,而琪雅等青年人则对拟感技术生成的虚拟空间无比向往。在新旧伦理冲突与张力之中,小说一方面以赛博技术挑战了传统婚姻模式和交际空间,另一方面在朋克精神中仍不乏温暖的人性关怀。最终,开放式结局为解开二进制婚姻“伦理结”提供了打破人与拟像空间壁垒的可能性,突出了人机联姻的隐喻,一场信息革命迎来了后伦理选择时代。
William Gibson combines big data with popular culture in Idoru,imagining a consumer society filled with simulacra.The novel revolves around the impossible binary marriage between the pop star Rez and the virtual idol Rei Toei,unfolding through the dual narratives of the genius analyst Laney and the young fan Chia seeking the truth,and shows the impact of technology on traditional ethical spaces,subjects,and relationships.The two ethical threads represented by Laney and Chia embody different ethical perspectives and choices;Laney questions the subjectivity of the“desiring machine,”while the youth like Chia yearn for the virtual space generated by pseudo-sensory technology.Amidst the conflict and tension between the old and new ethics,the novel challenges traditional modes of marriage and social interaction spaces with cyber technology on the one hand,yet still offers a warmth and humanistic concern in the punk spirit.In the end,the open-ended conclusion offers the possibility of untying the“ethical knot”of the binary marriage by breaking down the space barriers between humans and simulacra,metaphorically highlighting the man-machine union by marriage,as an information revolution embraces the post-ethical selection era.
作者
郭雯
Guo Wen(School of Foreign Languages and Literature,Suzhou University of Science and Technology,Suzhou 215009,China)
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2024年第5期107-118,共12页
Foreign Literature Studies
