解读吉尔伯特·西蒙东：人与机器
讲者：托马斯·拉马雷
主持：张尕
日期：2017年12月19日
时间：14：30-16：00
地点：中央美术学院美术馆学术报告厅
主办：中央美术学院艺术与科技中心
协办：中央美术学院美术馆
“文化已然成为了用于保护人类远离技术的防御系统。这种结果是由认为技术客体不具有人性的臆断所导致的。我们想要表明文化未能将技术性中的人性加以考虑。若文化当尽其责任，则其必将把技术性视为其知识与价值体系的一部分。对技术客体的存在模式之认知必将成为哲学思考之结果；哲学在此方面所应当成就的，正应等同于废奴运动在确立人类个体之价值时所成就的那样。”
——吉尔伯特•西蒙冬， 《论技术客体的存在模式》
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关于讲座
西蒙东哲学的标志是从一个非规范的角度来看待一系列通常被视为个体的存在模式，诸如机器、生物、人类、社会等，即视个体生成过程为个体。 从个体生成的角度来看，个体总是“多于一个”，但他并不是孤立地看待每一个个体生成的过程。 当他从个体生成的角度来考虑技术时，他写道：“机器在社会各个层面都处于我们文明的晦涩区域。” 托马斯· 拉马雷（Thomas LaMarre）以西蒙东的观点为前提，审视人类个体和技术以及个人与社会之间的不断互相交错同时又相互遮蔽的关系。托马斯· 拉马雷（Thomas LaMarre）亦由此展示西蒙东的理论使我们得以应对当下有关机器、人类与社会之间的一些最为困难的问题。
可以毫不夸张地说，吉尔伯特•西蒙东是20世纪最为重要的哲学家之一， 或许也因其超前的思想而长期为主流学界所忽略。 他有关个体生成（individuation） 及技术与文化的思考极大地影响了包括吉尔·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze），布鲁诺·拉图尔 （Bruno Latour）, 贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒 （Bernard Stiegler）, 弗朗索瓦·拉吕尔（François Laruelle）, 伊萨贝拉·斯唐格斯（Isaballe Stengers）, 伊丽莎白.格罗兹（Elizabeth Grosz） 等在内的众多当代思想家。西蒙东的技术哲学不仅深刻改写了本体论的基本范式，重朔了人与机器乃至人类与物体的关系，更为化解文化和技术的传统困境指出了明确的途径，并潜在地为一种包含了人、物、器在内的的平等诉求奠定了新的伦理基础。他的思想对于以数字技术所主导的当代经验来说具有不可替代的认知意义。本次讲座邀请率先将西蒙东介绍给北美知识界的作者之一，加拿大麦基尔大学教授托马斯· 拉马雷（Thomas LaMarre）就西蒙东思想的核心问题做精辟而系统的阐述。
关于讲者
托马斯·拉马雷 (Thomas Lamarre)任教于加拿大麦基尔大学，教授东亚媒体与传播研究，同时他也是众多关于媒体历史和哲学的出版物作者，其中包括《动画机器：动画的媒体理论》（2010）和《动画生态学：电视、动画和游戏媒体的系谱》（2018）。
Reading Gilbert Simondon，Humans and Machines
Speaker：Thomas LaMarre
Time：19. 12. 2017 14: 30- 16:00
Introduced by ZHANG Ga
Venue: The Lecture Hall of CAFA ART Museum
Organized by CAFA Center for Art and Technology
Supported by CAFA ART Museum
"Culture has become a system of defense designed to safeguard man from technics. This is the result of the assumption that technical objects contain no human reality. …… [C]ulture fails to take into account that in technical reality there is a human reality, and that, if it is fully to play its role, culture must come to terms with technical entities as part of its body of knowledge and values. Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being."
Gilbert Simondon,
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
About the Lecture
The hallmark of Simondon’s philosophy is to look at a range of modes of existence normally treated as individuals ― machines, organisms, humans, societies ― from an implicitly non-normative perspective, that of the process of individuation. From the perspective of individuation, the individual is always ‘more-than-one.’ But he does not simply look at each process of individuation separately. When he considers technology from the perspective of individuation, he writes, “The machine remains in the obscure zone of our civilization, at all social levels.” Following Simondon, Thomas LaMarre proposes to look at how relation of the human individual to technology and the relation between human individual and society constantly intersect while obscuring each other. Thus LaMarre hopes to show how Simondon allows us to take on some of most difficult questions about contemporary relations between machines, humans, and societies.
It is no exaggeration to say that Gilbert Simondon was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and has been overlooked by mainstream academia for a long time perhaps due to his radical thinking which was much ahead of his time. His discourses on “individuation” and the genesis of technology have profoundly influenced many leading contemporary thinkers, including Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Bernard Stiegler, François Laruelle, Isaballe Stengers and Elizabeth Grosz, among others. This lecture invites Professor Thomas LaMarre of McGill University of Canada, who is among the first to introduce Simondon to North America, to explicate on the core issues of Simondon’s thought.
About the Speaker
Thomas Lamarre teaches in East Asian Media and Communications Studies at McGill University. He is author of numerous publications on the history and philosophy of media, among them The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (2010) and The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media (2018).
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