On Post-human Biopolitics in Zero K:From Living Towards Death to Undying Death
Don DeLillo's science fiction Zero K presents a post-human biopolitical landscape articulated by image technology,biotechnology,and synthetic technology.Through human freezing program,life is fragmented and becomes the object reconstructed by multiple modern technologies.Among them,image technology focuses on correcting memory and virtual images on the screen invade the human brain,stripping memory of its digital position.Biotechnology consumes the body and life is reduced to a material life that is"produced for consumption and sold for purchase"within the commercial kingdom.Synthetic technology directly creates a theater of death:the subject of life exiled from history speaks in the language of death about the death of the"other",which leads human beings into a topological situation of death without death.The author DeLillo uses the human freezing program in the novel to express his negative view on the argument of immortality and his position on the natural finality of life which is to"live to the death".
Zero Kimage technologybiotechnologysynthetic technologypost-human biopolitics
万方数据
