Abstract

What are the shape(s) of warfare and conflict in the allegedly post-historical, post-human, technocratic age? In a world altered by the technocratic paradigm, has our realist optic, founded on a witnessing that focuses on the surface appearance of things and a rhetoric framed by neo-liberal epistemology and desires, blinded us to the current changeable nature(s) and layerings of war and conflict? War is either seen as an abnormal happening in a faraway country, often defined as a dispute and not a war, or else it alters from a spectacular coordination of brute violence to a socio-economic inducement of fear, panic, social mobilisation/dispersion, and control in the particles of everyday life. During long periods of slow conflict nations leak away, people become metronomes, cultures are sapped of resilience, languages evaporate, existences are rendered irrelevant. How does writing bear witness to this spectrum of violence and reveal the technocratic paradigm underlying the sutures?

摘要

在所谓的后历史、后人类、技术统治时代，战争和冲突的形式是什么？在一个被技术官僚范式改变的世界中，我们的现实主义视角是否建立在关注事物表面现象的见证和新自由主义认识论和欲望框架的修辞之上，使我们对当前多变的本质和层次视而不见？战争和冲突？战争要么被视为发生在遥远国家的异常事件，通常被定义为争端而不是战争，要么它从残酷暴力的壮观协调转变为恐惧、恐慌、社会动员/分散的社会经济诱因，以及对日常生活细节的控制。在长期的缓慢冲突中，国家逐渐消失，人们变成了节拍器，文化被削弱了弹性，语言消失了，存在变得无关紧要。写作如何见证这种暴力行为并揭示缝合线背后的技术官僚范式？