《零K》中的后人类生命政治:从“向死而生”到“不死之死”

On Post-human Biopolitics in Zero K:From Living Towards Death to Undying Death

唐·德里罗的科幻小说《零K》展现了影像技术、生物技术和合成技术铰接下的后人类生命政治图景。在“人体冷冻项目”中,生命被敲零打碎,成为多重现代技术重构的对象。其中,影像技术着力于矫正记忆,屏幕中的虚拟影像入侵人类大脑,将记忆褫夺为数字的阵地。生物技术消费身体,生命被降格为商业王国内用于“生产消费、售卖购买”的物性生命。合成技术更是直接打造出一个死亡剧场:被历史放逐的生命主体以死神之语言说“他者”之死,致使人类陷入“不死之死”的拓扑境遇。作者德里罗借小说中的“人体冷冻项目”表明自己对永生论调的消极看法和“向死而生”的生命自然终结论立场。

Don DeLillo's science fiction Zero K presents a post-human biopolitical landscape articulated by image technology,biotechnology,and synthetic technology.Through human freezing program,life is fragmented and becomes the object reconstructed by multiple modern technologies.Among them,image technology focuses on correcting memory and virtual images on the screen invade the human brain,stripping memory of its digital position.Biotechnology consumes the body and life is reduced to a material life that is"produced for consumption and sold for purchase"within the commercial kingdom.Synthetic technology directly creates a theater of death:the subject of life exiled from history speaks in the language of death about the death of the"other",which leads human beings into a topological situation of death without death.The author DeLillo uses the human freezing program in the novel to express his negative view on the argument of immortality and his position on the natural finality of life which is to"live to the death".