摘要
触摸行为发生在物理物质、理论研究以及两者无法区分的生产空间中。作者探讨了女性主义理论如何触及科学,并将触觉解读为一种揭示他者中的自我和自我中的他者的行为。文章提供了量子场论的教程,让读者为触摸话题的意外对话者一电子一做好准备。电子是如何困扰物理学家,以至于被“正常化”并称为“不道德”的,这些粒子抵制规范的物理接触概念;它们是反常的。在人类的尺度上,电子使原子之间的距离无法拉近,从而给触摸的概念带来了麻烦:触摸的感觉自相矛盾地依赖于相邻物体之间的电排斥力。在亚原子尺度上,每个电子都从与自身的接触中获取能量,就像与另一个电子进行交换一样。接触的存在不仅源于接触的不存在,而且电子本身的存在也依赖于容纳其虚拟对应物的虚空。在每一个层面上,人们都无法触及他人一一甚至是自身中的他人。这种微观尺度上的悖论构成了所有宏观尺度的物质,对身份的空间和时间固定性提出了质疑。统一、自主的自我概念不仅在个人层面上存在问题,在粒子层面上也是如此。
This essay explores the act of touching as it takes place in physical matter,in theorizing,and in the productive spaces where the two are indistinguishable.First,the author considers how feminist theory goes about touching science and unpacks touch as an act that reveals the self within the other and the other within the self.The essay then offers a tutorial in quantum field theory to prepare the reader for an unexpected interlocutor on the topic of touching:the electron.As Barad demonstrates with descriptions of electrons and how they have troubled physicists to the point of being"normalized"and called"immoral,"these particles resist normative notions of physical contact;they are perverse.On the human scale,electrons trouble the notion of touch by making it impossible to close the distance between atoms:the sense of touch paradoxically relies on electric repulsion between neighboring objects.On the subatomic scale,each electron gleans its energy from touching itself as if undergoing an exchange with another.Not only does the presence of contact come from its absence but also the presence of electrons themselves relies on a void holding their virtual counterparts.This paradox on the micro scale that constitutes all macro-scale matter calls into question the spatial and temporal fixity of identity.Barad shows that the notion of a unified,autonomous self is problematic not just on the personal level but on the particle level as well,and she responds to this deconstruction of matter with an ethics of response-ability.
出处
《国际社会科学杂志（中文版）》
2024年第2期46-56,5,9,共13页
International Social Science Journal（Chinese Edition）
作者简介
凯伦·巴拉德,理论粒子物理学与量子场论博士,美国物理学家与哲学家,加州大学圣克鲁斯分校女性主义研究、哲学和意识史的杰出教授,著有《半途遇见宇宙:量子物理学、物质和意义的纠缠》(2007),在物理学、哲学、科学研究、唯物主义和女性主义等理论领域著述颇丰,其研究得到了美国国家科学基金会、福特基金会、休斯基金会、欧文基金会、梅隆基金会和美国国家人文基金会等的支持。
