當代中國科幻小說中的恐怖現代性以韓松與陳楸帆作品為例

本論文從韓松與陳楸帆兩位中國科幻作家的作品，探討中國現代性的問題，這兩位作家共同的特色是呈現高科技發展下中國所呈現的速度災難和現代性的恐怖。陳楸帆擅長描繪高科技介入的身體與權力之關係，以一個科技的現象對應一種身體的疾病徵狀，作為現代性另一面的隱喻。韓松則偏好呈現失速的科技對整體社會結構改變所引起的焦慮和恐懼。這兩位作家筆下的病態與不正常行為都是與現代性的權力準則共生之物，根據傅柯在《異常》一書中的說法，現代社會的權力運作透過「規訓－標準化」的機制創造出馴化的個人與身體，同時也生產了很多病態與恐怖的論述作為檢視與控制個人的手段。韓松與陳楸帆看似沉浸在病態與變異意象的創造，事實上則是透過描述高科技社會中現代權力溢出的現象，檢視權力結構，彰顯現代性的恐怖。本論文以傅柯的《異常》一書中探究權力的技術與異常概念的建構為主要理論基礎，以此閱讀韓松的《醫院》三部曲以及陳楸帆的《未來病史》與《後人類時代》。

This paper examines Chinese modernity through the science fiction works of Han Song and Chen Qiufan. These writers vividly depict the unsettling aspects of rapid technological advancement and the horror of modernity in China. Chen skillfully explores the relationship between power and the human body influenced by technology, using disease as a metaphor for the dark side of modernity. Han’s narratives focus on the anxiety and fear induced by technological changes. The abnormal and perverse behaviors in their works should be read as products of the norms established by modern power structures. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept in Abnormal, which describes how modern power creates docile bodies and individuals through the mechanism of discipline-normalization, this paper argues that these mechanisms also produce discourses on perversity and abnormality to control individuals. While Han and Chen seem immersed in the creation of pathological and deviant images, they are actually examining the phenomena of power overflow in a high-tech society, scrutinizing power structures, and highlighting the terror of modernity. Han’s The Hospital trilogy and Chen’s The History of Illness in the Future and The Posthuman Age highlight the emergence of new abnormal individuals shaped by the intricate relationship between advanced technologies and the technology of power.