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How Could "human" Imagine The Future

Posted on:2022-03-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Q ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2505306509968029Subject:Theater, film and television
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The cyborg is the product of the emerging cybernetics and information theory in the 20 th century in the western world.It describes a comprehensive steady-state system formed by the combination of the biological body and the external expansion organization in the technical hypothesis.The humanities that have been constantly updated since the Cold War have given the cyborg a broader meaning.The cyborg,which broke the boundaries between man and machine,was transformed into a critical tool for ideology and institutional power.With the continuous advancement of digital revolution technology,informatization and digital transformation have stepped in and accelerated the reconstruction of the "human" subject.The new "post-human" subject urgently needs a variety of thought resources that break through the limitations of the old concepts to imagine and speak for itself.;And the hybridity and openness of the cyborg itself make it difficult to express meaning for this imagination.Coincidentally,audiovisual language is another kind of text that continues to flow and "refuses to interpret".The image itself is in an ambiguous sense.Therefore,this article chooses the image of the cyborg in film and television works for analysis.The specific research on the images of cyborgs in film and television works is as follows: First,starting from the establishment and evolution of the cyborgs concept in the research of technological science and humanities,the definition of the cyborgs concept used in this article is defined as a certain purpose is to create a cybernetic connection between the organic tissue of the human body and high-tech electronic devices,which can transmit information in the complex body to self-regulate and control the biological image;secondly,explore the possibility and unavailability of audiovisual language to characterize the specific image possibility.Next,based on the film and television texts,we explored the classic image with human experience as the main body and universal acceptance,the mecha cyborgs images with the cybernetic body as the basic configuration under the challenge of technological tools to human experience,with human beings entering the "post-human" situation,the imagination of the image of cyborgs in digital media.The specific content is summarized as follows: The first-person perspective movement in Hardcore Henry creates an invisible subject that exists in continuous time and space.This subject without an exact identity transcends the boundary between media form and post-cold war order.The Robocop series reveal the hypocrisy of the "guardian myth",and the technology is reasonably evolved into an institutional tool under the needs of the developed industrial society;The female cyborg images in Ghost in the Shell and Alita: Battle Angel are the mirror image of women under Phyllis-Logocentrism,it reveals the existence of a male-dominated gender-power structure;Mecha in Pacific Rim and other mecha films serve as both "prostheses" and "media",reshapes the experience of human cognition and impacts the lifestyle of modern society by influencing the composition of "humans";the bio-mechanical hybrid in "EVA" recapitulates cyborgs’ "political opinion" through the prototype myth of the mother goddess;Under the influence of the wave of informatization,the images of cyborg in The Matrix changed from "image" to "form" in the generation process,and the impact of digital transformation Shadow rebuild itself together with its own field in the trend of media convergence in.In summary,as a mufti-subject that is open to different discourses and is extremely inclusive,the power and discourse networks of different historical cultures are hidden behind the cyborgs image.The main work done in this article is to discover these The ideology masked by the story image and at the same time,is deeply represented in the specific historical and cultural environment of the text,and from this,it explores the resources that mankind can liberate from all kinds of restrictions in the trend towards "post-human".Faced with a digital transformation,in a consumerist society surrounded by excessive images,the idea of retrieving cyborgs through the specific image in film and television works is of great significance to the imagination and speech of human beings.
Keywords/Search Tags:cyborg, image, post-humanism
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