ABSTRACT This paper takes Die Buribunken seriously as good science fiction. It is argued that it is good science fiction as it provides tropes, images and narratives through which the technological present and possible futures can be comprehended. Specifically, the Buribunks who confidently archive the self, present as a cypher for informational existence. Through learning about the Buribunks’ institutional organisation and deep motivations the various ways that the self becomes recorded in the digital can be mapped. However, the present is not Buribunkian, the self and its data-doubles are fragmented and conflicted, generated by surveillance, the data serfdom of worker-nodes, curatorial social media practices and ‘dark’ activities that try to hide personal responsibility. Nevertheless, the Buribunks drive to master the archive, encapsulates a tendency in the digital towards correspondence and unity within data repositories of the self.

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Die Buribunken 作为科幻小说：自我和信息存在

摘要 本文将《布里文肯之死》视为一部优秀的科幻小说。有人认为，它是一部优秀的科幻小说，因为它提供了可以理解技术现状和可能的未来的比喻、图像和叙事。具体来说，自信地存档自我的布里邦克人，表现为信息存在的密码。通过了解 Buribunks 的机构组织和深层动机，可以映射出将自我记录在数字中的各种方式。然而，现在不是 Buribunkian，自我及其数据替身是支离破碎和冲突的，由监视、工人节点的数据奴役、策展社交媒体实践和试图隐藏个人责任的“黑暗”活动产生。尽管如此，布里邦克人还是努力掌握档案，