(Re-)Imagining New Media
(Re-)Imagining New Media
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（重新）想象新媒体
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-658-32899-3
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发表时间：
1992
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通讯作者：
Jens (Hg.)
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作者：
Christoph;Schröter;Jens (Hg.)
科幻小说不仅是可能的未来潜力的资源，而且还是过去未来及其对社会变革的当代反思的档案。在疏远的叙述世界中，作者呈现了关于未来社会应该（或不应该）如何发展的当代想象。威廉·吉布森的《神经漫游者》就是这个档案的一个重要例子。吉布森在令人眼花缭乱的详细描述中描绘了一个反乌托邦的未来，主要是由 20 世纪 80 年代的全方位变化引起的普遍的愤怒和对未来的普遍不确定性。在这十年里，西方社会正在进入晚期资本主义时代，新的全球市场结构和新技术以前所未有的规模嵌入日常生活。在他的世界中，吉布森推断了虚拟现实、人工智能和数字网络空间（类似于今天的互联网）等新兴数字技术的技术潜力，并展示了他这一代人隐含的社会技术想象。相反，他的小说在更大范围内培育和传播了 80 年代的情感结构，成为新兴赛博朋克运动的先驱作品之一，这是对即将到来的二十世纪未来的一个有影响力的愿景。本文通过分析新技术在神经漫游者故事世界的权力结构中的作用来探索社会技术想象。
Science-Fiction is not only a resource for potentialities of possible futures, but also serves as an archive of past futures and their contemporary reflections on social changes. Within the estranged worlds of the narrations, the authors present the contemporary imaginaries of how society should (or should not) develop in the future. William Gibson’s Neuromancer is an important example of this archive. In a dizzyingly detailed description, Gibson depicts a dystopian future dominated by the prevailing irritations and common uncertainties about the future caused by the all-encompassing changes of the 1980s, a decade in which western societies were entering an era of late capitalism with new global market structures and the embedding of new technologies in the everyday life on a unprecedented scale. Within his world Gibson extrapolates the technological potentialities of new and emerging digital technologies like virtual reality, artificial intelligence and a digitalCyberspace, which is similar to what is today known as the internet, and lays out the implicit sociotechnical imaginaries of his generation. Reciprocally, his novel fostered and distributed the structure of feeling of the ‘80s on a larger scale, as it became one of the pioneer works of the emergingCyberpunkmovement—an influential vision of the future of outgoing twentieth century. This essay is exploring the sociotechnical imaginaries by analyzing the role of new technologies within the power structures ofNeuromancersstoryworld.