This article rethinks the concepts of zoê and bios proposed by Giorgio Agamben in relation to the history of technology. It argues that the relationship between embodiment and the audiovisual is only beginning to be understood alongside the recent and increasing omnipresence of digital audiovisual recording technologies in everyday life. Just as writing completely changed human society’s understanding of speech, the development of audiovisual media over the past century has profoundly affected and perhaps even founded our contemporary understanding of embodiment and embodied knowledge. Questions of performance documentation that have circulated in performance studies barely scratch the surface of what amounts to a new way of understanding life, embodiment, and knowledge, which I here begin to call the ‘video way of thinking’.

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视频思维方式

本文重新思考乔治·阿甘本 (Giorgio Agamben) 提出的与技术史相关的 zoê 和 bios 概念。它认为，随着数字视听记录技术在日常生活中的日益普及，体现和视听之间的关系才刚刚开始被理解。正如文字彻底改变了人类社会对言语的理解一样，过去一个世纪的视听媒体的发展也深刻地影响甚至可能奠定了我们当代对具身和具身知识的理解。在表演研究中流传的表演文件问题几乎没有触及到什么是理解生活、体现和知识的新方式的表面，我在这里开始称之为“视频思维方式”。