ABSTRACT

This speculative exercise in more-than-human communication geographies of human-machine encounters—what I describe as machine geographies—bypasses reductionistic and replicative responses to the question What does understanding mean in HMC, and rather shifts the focus toward the implications of the question as questioning our very assumptions regarding the machine, the human, the more-than-human, agency, aesthetics, and their respective origins, ultimately displacing actants’ genesis in favor of the ways in which actants affect one another. By utilizing the geographic registers of aesthetics, agency, and ecology, I offer meditations on how a reimagined notion of agency—in ecological, relational, entangled, and networked terms—contributes to recasting what we mean when we say that “humans and machines understand each other” when communicating. I describe how a shift from poiesis to sympoiesis, a making-with and worlding-with, in company, is inherently ecological and displaces any considerations of the I and the Thou in inter-actant encounters between machines and humans by shifting to a holistic perspective focused on the situated relation. Ultimately, this theoretical proposal provides an opportunity to challenge the still anthropocentric commitments found in HMC.

摘要

这种在人机相遇的超人类交流地理学中的推测性练习——我将其描述为机器地理学——绕过了对 HMC 中理解意味着什么问题的简化和复制性回答，而是将重点转移到问题的含义上，质疑我们对机器、人类、超人类、代理、美学及其各自起源的假设，最终取代了行为者的起源，转而支持这些方式其中行为者相互影响。通过利用美学、能动性和生态学的地理记录，我沉思了重新构想的能动性概念——在生态、关系、纠缠和网络方面——如何有助于重塑我们所说的“人类和机器理解彼此”交流时。我描述了如何从 poiesis 到 sympoiesis 的转变，在公司里一起创造和世界化，本质上是生态的，通过转向关注情境关系的整体视角，在机器和人类之间的互动相遇中取代了对我和你的任何考虑。最终，这个理论建议提供了一个机会来挑战 HMC 中仍然以人类为中心的承诺。