Defending the Diversity of Language:Insights from"Snow Crash"in Defense of the Babel Event
The theme of Neil Stephenson's science fiction novel Snow Crash is to defend the Babel/Information Apocalypse event.The Babel/Information Apocalypse event refers to God's confusion of hu-man languages.The humanistic crisis in the digital age manifests in three aspects:ontology,epistemolo-gy,and linguistics.The first two aspects can be summarized as the last one.Today,on the one hand,humans dominate science through ideal(artificial)language,especially mathematical language,while on the other hand,they pursue the unification of daily(natural)language.The digital age has accelerated the process of human language unification,and the reconstruction of the Tower of Babel has become a fixed trend.The key to defending humanistic knowledge lies in defending everyday language.Defending the diversity of language means defending the diversity of ideas and cultures.This is the inspiration given to us by the incident of the so-called Babel/Information Apocalypse event.
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