ABSTRACT

This article examines a series of poems by contemporary Irish authors writing in English, and focuses on the role of media technology in considering post-human ethics and human rights issues in these poems. Human rights discourse has faced the challenge of addressing the broadening of the category of ‘human’ through post-human ethics and aesthetics. What is therefore needed is a consideration of how the sphere or concept of human rights can encompass what Rosi Braidotti describes as ‘post-human subjects of knowledge – embedded, embodied and yet flowing in a web of relations with human and non-human others’. This theoretical framework informs the article's discussion of selected poems, how these poems approach human rights conflicts and violations in a distinctively post-human context, and how different manifestations of media technology shape and reflect such discussions. Poetry, technology, and the post-human subject are understood as equally embedded in the material, cultural, and political assemblages within which human rights and post-human ethics also emerge.

摘要

本文考察了当代爱尔兰作家用英语写作的一系列诗歌，并重点关注媒体技术在这些诗歌中考虑后人类伦理和人权问题方面的作用。人权话语面临着通过后人类伦理和美学来解决“人”范畴扩大的挑战。因此，需要考虑人权的领域或概念如何能够包含 Rosi Braidotti 所描述的“后人类知识主体——嵌入、体现并流动于与人类和非人类他人的关系网络中” . 这一理论框架为文章对选定诗歌的讨论提供了信息，这些诗歌如何在独特的后人类背景下处理人权冲突和侵犯，以及媒体技术的不同表现形式如何塑造和反映此类讨论。诗歌、技术和后人类主题被理解为同样嵌入在人权和后人类伦理也出现的物质、文化和政治组合中。