A Study On Human-machine Community In Asimov’s Science Fictions

Benefiting from the rapid development of science and technology and the resulting enormous social changes,in the current social and cultural context,the community relationship between human and non human beings has taken on a new form.Science fiction writers have already imagined this kind of community.Asimov’s science fiction "robot series" is such a masterpiece,the human-machine community presented in the novel has profound value concern and future direction.This thesis takes four robot novels of Asimov,The Caves of Steel,The Naked Sun,The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire as the main research objects,and starts with four aspects of the writer’s community thought,as well as the representations,writing strategies and culture values of the human-machine community to make an in-depth analysis of the human-machine community in Asimov’s science fiction.The thesis is divided into three main parts,which are introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction briefly introduces Asimov’s achievements in science fiction,summarizes the research results of Asimov’s science fiction at home and abroad,and points out the innovation points and key and difficult points of this paper.The main body consists of four chapters.The first chapter outlines the conceptual evolution of robots in science fiction,and further defines the concept of human-machine community.At the same time,analyzes the reasons for Asimov’s thought of human-machine community from the overall situation of the writing method of human-machine relationship in the science fiction world,the writer’s era background,Asimov’s own learning experience and Jewish identity.The second chapter analyzes the concrete representations of human-machine community in the novel on the basis of closing reading.Names similar to human beings give robots a reasonable identity to enter the human world.The emotion and memory generated in human-machine interaction closely combine the human-machine community,and then both sides work together to build a carbon/iron civilization.The third chapter focuses on the literary character of the novels,and discusses Asimov’s writing strategies of constructing a harmonious human-machine community from the role shaping,imagery creation and plot arrangement.Heroic humans and robots form an important part of the human-machine community,the spatial imagery and natural imagery reflects the vitality of human and machine interaction,and the setting of suspense and reversal enhances the vividness of human-computer interaction.The fourth chapter discusses the culture values of the human-machine community in Asimov’s science fiction.Asimov,on the basis of reflecting on the two human-machine relations of hostility and slavery,put forward the "Three Laws" as the presupposition of the human-machine community,which actually implies the position of anthropocentrism.In the current era context,the posthuman thoughts has achieved a theoretical breakthrough against anti-anthropocentrism,while Asimov’s human-machine community provides ethical guidance for the construction of the posthuman communities.The conclusion part is a summary of the previous content.The human-machine community presented in Asimov’s science fiction has both literary and ideological values,conveying the author’s strong humanistic care and idealistic outlook for science and technology and the future.