技术与身体:对“技术具身”的现象学反思

Technology and Body:A Reflection on Technological Embodiment

在二十一世纪新技术革命的背景下,科学世界和生活世界产生了一段不可见的距离。对于技术现象学的代表人物伊德来说,它具体表现为技术与身体之间的对抗。为了弥合科学世界与生活世界之间的鸿沟,伊德结合现象学与虚拟现实等物质技术,提出'技术具身'这一处于第三维度的概念。但从现象学自身的视角去看,这一提法却值得商榷:一方面,伊德对技术与身体的物质阐释与现象学家对它们的分析存在着根本差异;另一方面,'技术具身'概念自身也面临着难以克服的理论与现实问题。鉴于此,我们有必要重新反思在当代语境下技术中的身体、作为技术的身体和技术本身之间的相互关系。

Nowadays,there is already an invisible distance between the scientific world and phenomenological life-world in the context of technological revolution of the 21st century.For Don Ihde,who is the key figure in the field of phenomenology of technology,it is mainly the problem of the unification and confrontation between body and technology.In order to bridge the gap between two worlds,he introduces the third-dimensional concept which is technological embodiment by intertwining phenomenology into material technology of science which includes virtual reality and so on.But for phenomenology itself the concept is quite problematic.On one hand,there are many fundamental differences between Don Ihde’s material interpretation and phenomenologists’own analysis on body and technology,on the other hand,the concept of technological embodiment itself exists theoretical and realistic problems which are very hard to overcome.In view of that,we should rethink the mutual relationship among the body in the technology,the body as the technique and the technology itself in the context of contemporary technology.