科幻書寫的情動政治：談臺灣新世紀女性科幻的身體想像與親密關係

The Politics of Affect in Science Fiction: Bodily Imaginations and Intimate Relationships in Women’s Science Fiction in 21st

本文以與洪茲盈《墟行者》（2018）、林新惠《瑕疵人型》（2020）、《零碰觸親密》（2023）、蕭熠《名為世界的地方》（2020）為研究對象，探討新世紀二〇年代前後，臺灣女性作家於科幻文類的集體現身，其所展現的文學現象與創作動能。尤其，此些作品不約而同地以科幻視角關照了親密關係與情感形式，於臺灣文學史上意涵值得關注。

本文將以德勒茲與瓜達里於《什麼是哲學？》（What is Philosophy? 1991）中的「身體」（Body）作為理論框架。對德勒茲而言，身體具有情動（affect）與被情動（be affected）的運動能力，而情動力（affection）則是運動後所表現出來的結果，也是對「身體」的全新定義。在這樣的觀點下，情動力如何開展身體的主動性（active）便成為了重要的倫理學命題。藉此，本文得以捨棄人與非人的對立，重新審視當代科幻小說中對於「人身」與「機身」的想像，並以「情動的聚合」以及「身體的組配」進行考察。意圖指出：當代女性科幻小說透過書寫與想像，捕捉多樣身體的韻律，描繪出「情感的未來性」，而文學中的新人類、新關係與新感覺便由此現身。

 

This paper investigates the collective emergence of Taiwanese women writers in science fiction around the 2020s, focusing on Hung Tzu-Ying’s The Voyagers (《墟行者》2018), Lin Hsin-Hui’s Defective Human Models （《瑕疵人形》 2020）, Zero-Contact Intimacies (《零碰觸親密》2023), and Hsiao Yi’s A Place Called World (《名為世界的地方》2020). Their simultaneous engagement with the genre not only signals a new literary phenomenon but also generates distinctive creative momentum. Notably, these works converge on the exploration of intimacy and affective relations through speculative perspectives, a development with significant literary-historical implications.

The analysis draws on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What is Philosophy? (1991), particularly their Spinozist account of the body. For Deleuze, the body possesses the capacity both to affect and to be affected, with affective forces redefining the body itself. Within this framework, the ethical question concerns how such forces operate, manifest, and assemble to activate the body’s agency.

Through this lens, the paper reconsiders contemporary science fiction’s imagination of “human bodies” and “mechanical bodies,” moving beyond the rigid human/nonhuman divide. By examining the affective assemblages and bodily configurations in these texts, it argues that Taiwanese women’s science fiction captures the rhythms of diverse bodies and articulates a “futurity of affect.” In doing so, these works envision new forms of humanity, relationships, and sensations within literature.