Deleuze, Technology, and Thought

德勒茲、科技與思考

10.6184/TKR201812-3

Daniel W. Smith

Gilles Deleuze ； technology ； prosthesis ； maker's knowledge ； originary technicity ； 吉爾．德勒茲 ； 科技 ； 義肢 ； 創造者的知識 ； 原初科技性

Tamkang Review

49卷1期（2018 / 12 / 01）

33 - 52

英文

Although Gilles Deleuze never explicitly develops what might be considered a philosophy of technology, this article nonetheless attempts to outline the rudiments of a Deleuzian approach to technology by proposing a series of interrelated concepts: (1) prosthesis (technological artifacts are externalized organs); (2) proto-technicity, or originary technicity (but this technicity already exists in Nature, all the way down, and precedes any theory); (3) exodarwinism (the fact that evolutionary time has bifurcated, and technology evolves in a faster and accelerating time scale); (4) de-specialization or de-differentiation (what conditions the externalization of organs is their deterritorialization); (5) motricity (the link between the brain and the hand/mouth is primarily one of movement); (6) inscription, or graphism (the link between mouth and hand takes place through phonetic writing, when the hand reproduces speech in graphic inscriptions); (7) maker's knowledge (we know the organizations of matter found in nature through the organizations of matter that we ourselves have created); and finally, (8) totipotence (like a stem cell, the body is capable of being externalized in an almost unlimited number of forms and functions; it is itself an abstraction and the source of abstractions).

就算吉爾．德勒茲並未直接發展所謂的「科技的哲學」，本篇論文仍提出一系列相關聯的概念，列出幾個德勒茲式的基本科技原則。（一）義肢（科技加工物為外部化的器官），（二）原科技性或原初科技性（但此種科技性早已存在於大自然之中，一直傳遞下來，且先於任何理論），（三）外部達爾文主義（事實上，演化的時間早已分化，而科技的演化更快，且不斷加速中），（四）去專門化或去差異化（決定器官外部化的是它們本身的解畛域），（五）動能性（大腦和手／口的連結基本上是動作的一種），（六）印記或圖像主義（當手透過圖像複製口說，口和手的連結就是透過語音書寫建立的），（七）創造者的知識（我們透過自己創造出的物質組織、來了解在自然中發現的物質組織），（八）全能性（就像幹細胞，身體能幾乎無限制地被外部化為種種形式與功用；身體本身是抽象化的，也是抽象化的來源）。

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