邁向他者的永恆中介：四部浪漫愛電影的電子科技性與都市物質性

The Eternal Mediation Towards the Other: The Electro-Technicity and Urban-Materiality in Four Romance Movies

浪漫愛研究往往架構於個體化、民主化與不確定性等課題，相對忽略科技、都市環境及物質部署的角色。相對的，本文以四部凸顯了科技物的愛情電影為素材，探討浪漫愛如何鑲嵌於電子傳播科技和都市物質性，並受其推動與支持。作者主張，晚近以愛情之科技中介為命題的電影，除了立足於科技是否消弭或成就人性的長久爭辯，也透露了極度差異的自我與他／她者之間如何可能（或不能）建立關係的通俗想像。促成自我凝視的電子通訊科技，建構了追逐理想他者的慾望，但慾望的實踐卻依託於促成殊異主體遭逢的都市基礎設施。作者據此反思通俗愛情神話透露的人類焦慮，即社會性在益發劇烈的資本－技術體系滲透下之能與不能。如何不沉淪於輕易、直接的社會交往，而能承認人我之間的永恆中介，扮演願為異己勞煩自我的主體，或許是根本課題。

Studies on romantic love often foreground issues of individualization, democratization and uncertainty; in so doing, they downplay the role of technology, urban environments, and material deployment. In contrast, through four romance movies that highlight technological objects, this paper explores how romantic love is embedded within and supported by electronic communication technology as well as urban materiality. In addition to seeing these films as continuing the long-standing debate about whether technology eliminates or accomplishes humanity, the authors argue that films featuring the technological mediation of love also show a popular imagination of how the extremely differentiated self and the other may (or may not) establish relationship. While the desire to pursue for the ideal other is constructed by technology facilitating a self-gaze, the practice of such desire however relies on the urban infrastructure that enables the encounters between different subjects. Following this line, the authors reflect on the human anxiety displayed by popular myths about love, that is, the possibility of sociality under the increasingly omnipresent capital-technological system. To not indulge in an easy and direct social interaction, but to recognize the eternal intermediation between self and other as well as to willingly trouble her or himself for the other, may be the fundamental issue.