Cultural Technologies within a Technological Culture. On the Hybrid Construction of Social Life

技术文化中的文化技术。

• 批准号: 72865036
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Christian Papilloud
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Soziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Publication Grants
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-31 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/72865036?language=en
• 关键词: Cultural; Technologies; within; Technological; Culture.

In the cultural and social sciences, the contemporary discourses on identity largely take place within the scope of the debates on the death of the Subject inaugurated by the critical contemporary readings of the structuralist tradition after WW-II, particularly the related work of the French philosopher and social scientist Michel Foucault. Today, this kind of interpretation is a commonplace within the sociology of identity, which is impossible to circumvent. It is reinforced by its convergence and its complementarities with the critical theses againsUnodern colonialism, arid the security stake in the industrialized countries underlines by the recent public policy research. In this concert of harmonised voices not only in the field of the scientific disciplines, but also on an international level, one often misses to consider the other facet of the coin, namely: the rebuilt of identity. The book which we propose introduced this problematics considering the word « rebuilt» not as a metaphorical one, but as an ensemble of operations related to the intervention of technology in the life of the individuals and in society, with which one makes identity without pun, i.e. where the identity becomes a field of experimentations, where one reparameters its resources, pre-defines and prefabricates its limits. If social sciences will undoubtedly live still for a time in the probabilistic ideal of individuals and societies considered as achievements of some few possibles among a world of other ones, the reflexion conducted on the experimentation of identity pragmatises the prospect. The technological instrumentation seen as a new cultural layer within modern societies, and their products distributed in the public as current human consumption goods become today the agents of a world of possibles which are embedded in our daily life. These possibles are more or less technologically contextual\zed, predefined, pre-directed, pre-registered. Thus, their world is not more a "metaphysical" one, but the world of the conditions favouring the rebuilt of identity, which becomes its experimental plan. The description and the analysis of the conditioning of these possibles are the first stake of each contribution presented in this book by various specialists coming from Germany, England, Canada, France and the United States. Each contribution provides a thought on this topic from its particular point of view, which can be differentiated according to three complementary levels of the analysis on identity that they support, namely the anthropological level, the psychosocial and the social-political one.

在文化和社会科学中，当代关于身份的论述主要发生在二战后对结构主义传统的批判性当代解读所引发的关于主体死亡的辩论范围内，特别是法国哲学家和社会科学家米歇尔·福柯的相关著作。如今，这种解释在身份社会学中已经司空见惯，无法绕过。它与反对非殖民主义的批判性论点的趋同性和互补性，以及最近的公共政策研究所强调的工业化国家的安全利益，加强了它。在这场不仅在科学学科领域，而且在国际层面上的和谐声音的音乐会中，人们往往忽略了硬币的另一个方面，即：身份的重建。我们提出的这本书介绍了这个问题，认为“重建”一词不是隐喻性的，而是与技术干预个人生活和社会有关的操作的集合，人们用它来制造身份而不是双关语，也就是说，身份成为一个实验的领域，在那里人们重新参数化它的资源，预先定义和预制它的限制。如果社会科学无疑将在个人和社会的概率理想中生活一段时间，这些个人和社会被认为是其他世界中少数可能性的成就，那么对身份实用主义实验的反思就会使前景变得更加务实。技术工具被视为现代社会中的一个新的文化层，其产品作为当前人类消费品在公众中分发，今天成为嵌入我们日常生活的可能性世界的代理人。这些可能性或多或少都是技术背景化的，预定义的，预先定向的，预先注册的。因此，他们的世界不再是一个“形而上学”的世界，而是一个有利于身份重建的条件的世界，这成为他们的实验计划。对这些可能性的条件的描述和分析，是来自德国、英国、加拿大、法国和美国的各种专家在本书中提出的每一个贡献的第一个赌注。每一份材料都从其特定的角度提供了关于这一主题的思想，这些观点可以根据它们所支持的关于身份的分析的三个互补层面来区分，即人类学层面、心理社会层面和社会政治层面。