抗生素耐药性时代的末日游戏

IF 0.9 3区哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Osiris Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI:10.1086/704048

Lorenzo Servitje

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引用次数: 10

摘要

自21世纪初以来，大众媒体上关于抗生素耐药性的文章越来越多，其中许多文章用科幻小说的语言“后抗生素启示录”来呈现这种现象。为了提高公众意识，经度奖由英国国家科学、技术和艺术基金会(NESTA)资助，于2016年创建了手机视频游戏《超级细菌》。这篇文章展示了手机游戏媒介如何以一种对科学史产生影响的方式回应并执行抗生素末日的科幻性。超级细菌调解了人类和细菌之间战争的概念隐喻向相互关系共存模式的转变。通过对抗生素耐药性的历史和当前表现的陌生化，这款游戏为我们提供了一种独特的方式来反思细菌基因组中培养这种生存设施的条件。

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Gaming the Apocalypse in the Time of Antibiotic Resistance

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing number of articles in the popular press on antibiotic resistance, a great many of which present the phenomenon in the science-fictional language of the “post-antibiotic apocalypse.” In an effort to increase public awareness, the Longitude Prize, funded by the United Kingdom’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA), created the mobile video game Superbugs in 2016. This essay shows how the mobile gaming medium responds to and performs the science fictionality of the antibiotic apocalypse in a way that has consequences for the history of science. Superbugs mediates a shift in the conceptual metaphor of a war between humans and bacteria to an interrelational model of coexistence. By defamiliarizing both the history and current representations of antibiotic resistance, the game gives us a unique way to reflect on the conditions that fostered this survival facility in the bacteria genome.

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Osiris 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学

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1.10

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Founded in 1936 by George Sarton, and relaunched by the History of Science Society in 1985, Osiris is an annual thematic journal that highlights research on significant themes in the history of science. Recent volumes have included Scientific Masculinities, History of Science and the Emotions, and Data Histories.