技术与感知:后人类语境中的美学问题

Technology and Sensation: Aesthetic Issues in Post-human Condition

后人类作为对控制论转向和信息重生的一种回应,试图描述并重新概念化一系列松散的、快速变化的技术领域和人们具身化境况之间的关系。伴随着新兴技术的发展,技术开始呈现为对人类身体的嵌入、模仿与脱离,造成了人类记忆的外化,乃至逐渐显现出的人的记忆的后种系生成,也即并非是技术的人性化而是人的技术化,并最终发展为社会的技术化。从书写到数字化技术的发展使得信息构成了一种新的基数体系,除了对人们的感觉记忆所造成的冲击外,像记忆衰退与增强的辩证法,其还重塑着社会的情感结构与感觉共同体。新兴增强技术的扩张所裹挟的意识形态侵入、权力穿透等改写着人们的感知,带来了新的阶级区隔与身份认同问题,也造成了新的社会不平等现象。在一定意义上,这些集中体现着后人类语境中美学的伦理与政治问题。

As a response to cybernetics and information rebirth,the concept of'post human'attempts to describe and re-conceptualize the relationships between fast-changing technologies and the situation which is being embedded in human beings.With development,technology begins to embed in,imitate and then separate from the human body,resulting in externalization and even epiphylogenesis of human memory.In other words,it is not the humanization of technology but the'technicalization'of human beings,which eventually develops into the'technicalization'of human society.From writing to digital technology,development of information forms a new cardinal system,reshaping the social structure of feeling and feeling community,as well as other impacts on people’s sensory memory.The ideological invasion and the penetration of power embodied in the expansion of emerging enhancement technique rewrites people’s sensation and brings about new class distinctions and identity issues,leading to new social inequality.To some extent,these phenomena represent the ethical and political issues in aesthetics under the post-human condition.