《弗兰啃斯坦：一个爱情故事》中的后人类技术与身体

外国文学研究 ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 110-120.

《弗兰啃斯坦：一个爱情故事》中的后人类技术与身体

林少晶

发布日期:2021-08-29
作者简介:林少晶,浙江大学人文学院世界文学与比较文学博士生,主要从事当代英国文学研究。

Posthuman Technology and Body in Frankissstein: A Love Story

Lin Shaojing

Published:2021-08-29
About author:Lin Shaojing is a PhD student of world literature and comparative literature at the School of Humanities, Zhejiang University (Zhejiang 310000, China), specializing in contemporary British literature. Email: lshaojing@163.com

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 假肢技术作为人类增强技术之一存在着两种截然不同的观点,即提升功能或治疗性的医学干预,这两种观点也指涉赛博格形象的两种不同内涵。对这一问题的探讨涉及人类增强技术的伦理考量,有助于我们理解（人类增强技术）对人类的意义,在最新出版的小说《弗兰啃斯坦：一个爱情故事》中,珍妮特·温特森为我们提供思考二者关系的方式。通过分析赛博格的由来,可见赛博格产生的技术背景（控制论技术）和社会背景（战争）对当代流行文化中的赛博格形象表征产生了决定性的影响;在假肢的修辞隐喻中,假肢成为时髦的装备,受损的身体消失在背景中,只有强调假肢的物质现实,假肢佩戴者具身化的身体才能恢复可见性。这些佩戴假肢者不是使用身体技术,而是生活在身体技术中,他们的身体和假肢协同进。只有具备这种伦理意识,才能避免身体在人类增强技术中消失的命运。

关键词: 珍妮特·温特森, 《弗兰啃斯坦：一个爱情故事》, 假肢, 人类增强, 赛博格

Abstract: As one of human enhanced technologies, there are two distinctly opposing views on prosthetic technology, that is, enhancing intervention or therapeutic medical intervention, and these two views also refer to two different connotations of cyborg image. A probe into this issue, which may involve the ethical consideration of human enhanced technology, could help us understand what it means to human beings. In her latest novel, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson provides us with a way to think about the relationship between the two. By analyzing the origin of cyborg, we can see not only its technological background (cybernetic technology) and social background (war), but also its decisive impact on the representation of cyborg images in contemporary popular culture. In the rhetorical metaphor of prosthetics, protheses become fashionable equipment while damaged bodies fade into the background. Only by emphasizing the materiality of protheses can the prosthesis wearers restore the visibility of their embodied bodies. These wearers do not usesomatechnologies, but live in them instead., andtheir bodies coevolve with their protheses. With this ethical consciousness, it might be possible for our bodies to avoid the fate of fading away in human enhanced technology.

Key words: Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story, prosthesis, human enhancement, cyborg

林少晶. 《弗兰啃斯坦：一个爱情故事》中的后人类技术与身体[J]. 外国文学研究, 2021, 43(4): 110-120.

Lin Shaojing. Posthuman Technology and Body in Frankissstein: A Love Story[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2021, 43(4): 110-120.

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