Fantastically reasonable: ambivalence in the representation of science and technology in super-hero comics
Fantastically reasonable: ambivalence in the representation of science and technology in super-hero comics
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极其合理：超级英雄漫画中科技表现的矛盾心理
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2005
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S. Locke
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长期以来，学术界对科学的讨论中存在着一个鲜明的对比，即人们认为科学对公众的影响是令人着迷的，还是令人着迷的。在一个形象中，科学取代了对不可知实体的神奇信仰，而相信已知的力量和过程，并将所有事物简化为一个单一的技术措施。另一方面，科学本身是神奇的超越，表现在技术的奉承和科学家作为巫师或牧师的形象。本文表明，这些对比鲜明的图像也被发现在超级英雄漫画，其中，鉴于其在英美文化中的地位低下的科学表征，似乎是一个不太可能的地方找到这样的共性与学术话语。有人认为，这是证据表明，对比构成了一种矛盾心理所产生的困境，科学构成的，他们是共同的哲学所产生的，并反射性地喂养了一套广泛的文化关注。这是通过考虑在漫画中的一些层次上的科学表征来探索的，特别关注科学魔法星座，以及技术和科学家表征中的魔法和幻想破灭的图像。本文认为，超级英雄漫画是一个文化竞技场，科学的公共意义是积极制定的，一个活动，团结“专家”和“非专家”一样。
A long-standing contrast in academic discussions of science concerns its perceived disenchanting or enchanting public impact. In one image, science displaces magical belief in unknowable entities with belief in knowable forces and processes and reduces all things to a single technical measure. In the other, science is itself magically transcendent, expressed in technological adulation and an image of scientists as wizards or priests. This paper shows that these contrasting images are also found in representations of science in super-hero comics, which, given their lowly status in Anglo-American culture, would seem an unlikely place to find such commonality with academic discourse. It is argued that this is evidence that the contrast constitutes an ambivalence arising from the dilemmas that science poses; they are shared rhetorics arising from and reflexively feeding a set of broad cultural concerns. This is explored through consideration of representations of science at a number of levels in the comics, with particular focus on the science-magic constellation, and enchanted and disenchanted imagery in representations of technology and scientists. It is concluded that super-hero comics are one cultural arena where the public meaning of science is actively worked out, an activity that unites “expert” and “non-expert” alike.