Game Preserves: Digital Animals at the Brink of the Post-Anthropocene
Game Preserves: Digital Animals at the Brink of the Post-Anthropocene
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游戏保护区：后人类世边缘的数字动物
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2022
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J. Wallin
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J. Wallin
随着我们进入科学家所说的地球上生命的第六次大灭绝，我们被迫面对一个没有动物的未来世界的前景。然而，尽管在全球生态灾难之后，“真正的”动物消失了，但动物在“人类世”的想象中激增，特别是通过当代视频游戏，因为它们重新想象了人类未来的关系，动物生活越来越远离人类的生活。在视频游戏中想象的动物不仅是为了让动物重新加入到一个没有更多自然空间的文化中，而且是为了保护动物，作为我们在这个快速变化的星球上的地位和意义的标志。在这里，在视频游戏中对动物进行外科手术重塑，是对动物未来地位的预兆，并通过模拟来保护动物的生存，而在模拟中，动物仍在自由主义和人文主义的心理模型中工作，这种心理模型与人类世思维的自负密切相关。本文主要借鉴让·鲍德里亚(Jean Baudrillard，1994)的研究成果和他对动物从本体论到超现实同伴的转变，分析了一些以超现实动物同伴为突出特征的当代视频游戏(如《Fallout》和《外部世界》)。接下来，本文旨在阐明超现实主义的动物重塑既是我们与非人类当代关系的索引，也是人类世时代应对灭绝威胁的一种模式。
ABSTRACT As we enter what scientists are calling the 6th mass extinction of life on this planet, we are forced to confront the prospect of a future world without animals. Despite the disappearance of ‘real’ animals in the wake of global ecocatastrophe however, animals proliferate in the ‘Anthropocene’ imaginary, and in particular, through contemporary video games as they reimagine the future relationship of humans and animal life increasingly withdrawn from the lives of humans. The animal imagined in video games herein serves not only to re-join the animal to a culture that has no more room for nature, but to preserve the animal as a sign of our status and significance on a rapidly changing planet. Herein, the surgical remaking of animals within video games constitutes an augury on the future status of the animal and the preservation of its existence via simulation, where it is yet made to labor in the psychical models of liberalism and humanism intimate to the conceits of Anthropocene thinking. Drawing largely from the scholarship of Jean Baudrillard (1994) and his developments on the transmutation of animals from ontological equal to hyperreal companion, this essay will analyze a number of contemporary video games (e.g. Fallout, the Outer Worlds) in which hyperreal animal companions are prominently featured. Following, the essay will aim to articulate the hyperreal reformatting of animality as both an index of our contemporary relationship with non-humans and as a mode of responding to the threat of extinction in the Anthropocene era.