組裝行動與混成的情緒：Instagram使用者的憂鬱書寫、連結與共生

"Assembled Actions and Hybridized Emotions: The Posting, Articulating, and Symbiosis of Depressed People“with”Instagram"

本研究以Instagram使用者中「憂鬱者」的日常使用行動為例，闡明後人類處境中「我們」──包含著人與非人的物──如何相互影響並生成情緒、感受與行動。本研究主張，從新物質主義與後人類理論的觀點來看，Instagram並不只是「工具」，而是能在與使用者的組裝、連結中共同生成影響與行動。以Instagram憂鬱者為例，本研究闡明：「我」實際上是如何在與其手機、Instagram介面，乃至於其他使用者的互動之中，被影響而生成當下某個特定的情緒、感受或行動，進而這些被促動的情緒與行動又如何接連地影響與「我」共同行動的其他人與物。同時，本研究也主張，Instagram憂鬱者們的行動與經驗，正是如今生活在後人類處境中的每一個人實際的日常。「我們」都是在那一連串的行動中──開啟Instagram、從照片檔案中召回記憶、隨著修圖越發清楚地形成感受、在不停增刪的文字中確認情緒、被一個個顯現的「愛心」影響著──才更實在地有了當下的各種「自我」感受。

"This research examines how“we”(including human and non-humanactors) affect each other on Instagram and thus engender emotions, feelings,and actions in the contemporary post-human condition. Different from SherryTurkle’s argument in Alone Together, we do not regard the state of alwaysrelying on connections with each other to be a symptom of a fragile andnarcissistic self. This research argues that, in the post-human condition, weare no longer traditional humanist subjects who are regarded as independentand individualized subjects. The concepts of“self”and“subject”need to beredefined and understood in the context of contemporary technologicaldevelopments and changes. It is not to say that“humans”do not have“self”or are not“subject”anymore; rather it means that what needs to be changed isto treat“human”as completely independent individuals with definiteboundaries. The post-human condition also means that the perspective oftraditional humanism no longer can explain who (or what) are the real“actors”any more. In other words, we need to reconsider everyday life fromthe more-than-human perspective."