Posthumanism, the Social and the Dynamics of Material Systems
Posthumanism, the Social and the Dynamics of Material Systems
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后人类主义、物质系统的社会和动力学
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2016
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A. Henkel
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技术已经发展到自然和文化之间的明显区别似乎正在消失的地步。在这种背景下，社会研究的一个广泛的方面已经出现，认为社会和物质之间的相互依存关系。到目前为止，卢曼所描述的社会系统控制论在这些讨论中仍然相当边缘化。本文旨在通过发展意义的概念来克服这种边缘化。意义可以抽象地定义为“消极的行为”。回到系统论，很明显，言语化的意义（通过语言表达）只是意义的一种可能媒介。我采用了赫尔穆特·普莱斯纳的一些概念，介绍了另一种意义的媒介--身体实现的意义（用物理术语表达），它也沿着现实性和潜在性之间的区别有意义地运作，从而也起到了否定性的作用。我从这个角度讨论观察社会性和物质性之间的关系的后果。
Technology has developed to the point where a clear distinction between nature and culture seems to be dissolving. Against this background, a broad aspect of social research has emerged that considers an interdependence between the social and the material. So far, social-systems cybernetics as described by Luhmann has remained rather marginalized in these discussions. This article is intended to overcome this marginalization by developing the concept of meaning. Meaning can abstractly be defined as a ‘doing negativity’. Returning to systems theory, it becomes obvious that verbalized meaning (expressed through language) is only one possible medium of meaning. Adopting some concepts from Helmuth Plessner, I introduce another medium of meaning – corporealized meaning (expressed in physical terms), which also operates meaningfully along the distinction between actuality and potentiality, and thus does negativity. I discuss consequences of observing the relationship between sociality and materiality from this perspective.