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Human 2.0? Conceptual metaphors of human beings in technologists' discourse: A study of the MIT Media Lab's Human 2.0 Symposium.

机译:人类2.0?技术人员话语中人类的概念隐喻:麻省理工学院媒体实验室的人类2.0专题讨论会的研究。

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As we enter the 21st century, the rate of technological change is accelerating, and the question of who we think we are is rapidly being overtaken by who we are becoming. Our tools and technologies shape us. The discourse of technologists is consequential to the kinds of social worlds we build. In order to better understand this discourse, this study applies Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory to a specific event, the Human 2.0 Symposium, produced by a branch of an exemplary U.S. engineering school, the MIT Media Lab. The aim is to better understand how technologists working on the cutting-edge of new developments talk about human beings. Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology, Perez' techno-economic paradigms, and Weber's study of bureaucratic rationality form the basis for a critical reflection on this discourse. Dominant metaphors that surfaced in this study included MAN IS A MACHINE, MIND IS A COMPUTER, and BRAINS R US (HUMANS ARE THEIR BRAINS). Notable exceptions to these mechanistic metaphors surfaced in the discourse of the two physicians who presented at this event, Smith and Sacks. Finally, this study examines the values embedded in the conceptual metaphors chosen to describe human beings by those who are shaping the course of what humans are becoming.;Keywords: technology, critical theory, conceptual metaphor, metaphor analysis, robots, MIT Media Lab, posthuman, human 2.0
机译:随着我们进入21世纪,技术变革的速度正在加快,关于谁以为我们正在成为谁的问题正在迅速被我们认为是谁的问题所取代。我们的工具和技术影响着我们。技术人员的话语与我们建立的各种社会世界有关。为了更好地理解这种话语,本研究将Lakoff和Johnson的概念隐喻理论应用于特定事件-人类2.0研讨会,该研讨会由美国示例工程学院的一个分支机构MIT媒体实验室制作。目的是更好地了解从事新发展前沿技术的技术人员如何谈论人类。费恩伯格的技术批判理论,佩雷斯的技术经济范式和韦伯对官僚理性的研究,构成了对这一论述进行批判性反思的基础。在这项研究中浮出水面的主要隐喻包括“人是一台机器”,“思想是一台计算机”和“大脑是我们的大脑”。这些机制隐喻的显着例外出现在两位出席本次活动的医师Smith和Sacks的论述中。最后,本研究研究了塑造人类成长过程的人们所选择的用来描述人类的概念隐喻中的价值。关键词:技术,批判理论,概念隐喻,隐喻分析,机器人,麻省理工学院媒体实验室,后人类,人类2.0

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  • 作者

    Peterson, Mary Jane.;

  • 作者单位

    Fielding Graduate University.;

  • 授予单位 Fielding Graduate University.;
  • 学科 Language Linguistics.;Education Technology of.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 215 p.
  • 总页数 215
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 语言学;
  • 关键词

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