Screening posthumanism: humanness, embodiment and artificial people in 21st century science-fiction film and television.

放映后人类主义：21世纪科幻影视中的人性、具身化与人造人。

• 批准号: 2434178
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2434178
• 关键词: Screening; posthumanism; humanness; embodiment; artificial

This project aims to investigate how, within contemporary science-fiction film and television,technologies come to be inscribed with ideas of 'humanness' (Wood, 2002). It will explore this inscriptionof the human onto the technological through varying modes of embodiment, from the intangible to thetangible. Posthumanism, although a contested term, can broadly be thought of as a rethinking of what itmeans to be human, specifically, the ways evolutionary, ecological and technological advancementsaffect Enlightenment definitions of humanism (Wolfe, 2010). Science-fiction regularly envisionsposthuman futures of human displacement through narratives of AI, cyborgs and holograms. Thesetechnologies have been discussed under two broad lines of argument. The first is that concepts of'humanness', such as gender and community, are inscribed onto technology to make it moreunderstandable and manageable. This renders technology 'safe' and keeps intact the conceptualcategories of humanness (Wood, 2002). The second is that technological subjects inscribed withhumanness open up and problematise the very definitions of what it means to be human in posthumanistfashion (Herbrechter, 2013). My intervention will show that these two conflicting approaches arenegotiated simultaneously within contemporary science-fiction film and television. I hypothesise thatdefinitions of what it means to be human are simultaneously upheld and challenged within a single text,and will elucidate this conflict through close textual analysis and the framework of posthumanism.

该项目旨在调查在当代科幻电影和电视中，技术如何铭刻“人性”的理念（Wood，2002）。它将通过从无形到有形的不同体现方式来探索人类对技术的铭刻。后人类主义虽然是一个有争议的术语，但广泛地可以被认为是对人类意义的重新思考，特别是进化、生态和技术进步影响启蒙运动对人文主义定义的方式（Wolfe，2010）。科幻小说经常通过人工智能、机器人和全息图的叙述来设想人类流离失所的后人类未来。这些技术已经在两大方面进行了讨论。首先，“人性”的概念，例如性别和社区，被铭刻在技术中，使其更易于理解和管理。这使得技术变得“安全”并保持了人性的概念范畴完整（Wood，2002）。第二个是，铭刻着人性的技术主题开启了后人类主义时尚中人类的定义并提出了问题（Herbrechter，2013）。我的介入将表明，这两种相互冲突的方法是在当代科幻电影和电视中同时进行的。我假设，对人类意义的定义在一个文本中同时受到支持和挑战，并将通过仔细的文本分析和后人类主义的框架来阐明这种冲突。