内在之战与外在之战:肯·麦克劳德的《公司战争》三部曲的后人类世界观

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2021-0019

Indrajit Patra

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本文旨在分析苏格兰科幻作家肯·麦克劳德的《公司战争》三部曲(2016-2017)，将其作为在后人文主义背景下的政治哲学思想的混合体。麦克劳德的遥远未来的后人类世界建设依赖于科幻小说的传统比喻(人机混合、大脑上传、数字复活和有知觉的机器的代理)来参与紧迫的意识形态(主仆辩证法、进步和反动力量之间古老冲突的历史延续、机器意识的伦理)。麦克劳德的小说投射出一种后二元主义的世界观，在这种世界观中，生与死、真实与虚拟、人与机器之间过时的二元对立不断被废除，但仍然保留着持久的意识形态分歧。

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The Battle Within and the Battle Without: The Posthuman Worldview of Ken MacLeod’s The Corporation Wars Trilogy

Abstract The present essay seeks to analyze Scottish science fiction writer Ken MacLeod’s The Corporation Wars trilogy (2016-2017) as an amalgam of politico-philosophical ideas set against the background of posthumanism. MacLeod’s far-future posthuman world-building relies on the conventional tropes of science fiction (man-machine hybrids, brain uploading, digital resurrection, and the agency of sentient machines) to engage with pressing ideologies (the master-slave dialectics, the historical perpetuation of age-old conflict between progressive and reactionary forces, the ethics of machinic consciousness). MacLeod’s novels project a postbinarist worldview where outmoded binary oppositions between life and death, the real and the virtual, the human and the machinic are constantly abolished, but which still preserves persistent ideological divisions.

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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