The Posthuman Images And Affect Generations In Ted Chiang’s Science Fiction Novels

The Chinese-American author Ted Chiang is a distinguished contemporary science fiction writer.Up to now,he only has 18 works of all,but have won four Nebula Awards,four Hugo Awards,six Trajectory Awards and other international awards,and his novels have been widely circulated worldwide.Ted Chiang’s works are no longer confined to grand narratives,but places science fiction in the context of daily life,focusing on the relationship between human beings and other non-human intelligences,rethinking the boundaries and status of us,expressing the special emotions of post-human subjects,and reawakening human beings’ love for life.On this basis,this paper will analyze the image of posthuman in Ted Chiang’s science fiction and the generation of the posthuman subject’s emotion.The introduction includes the background of the study,the status of domestic and international research,and the research ideas and innovations.Chapter 1 analyzes the posthuman image in Ted Chiang’s novels.His novels cover almost all posthuman subjects,from robots to cyborgs,from animals to the universe.In his novels,these posthuman images not only appear as the Other,but also have profound subjectivity,and through physical and emotional interactions,he questions the nature of human beings,which has been taken for granted,and thinks about the relationship between humans and the world from a new perspective.Chapter 2 specifically analyzes the cognitive model of the posthuman subject in Ted Chiang’s science fiction.In his posthuman universe,language,time,and memory,which were once uniquely human,are turned upside down,and the posthuman subject,with its dissolution of dualism,offers us new perspectives on the world and ourselves,and how we will recognize the posthumanity we have.Chapter 3 summarizes the posthuman pathways of affective action in Ted Chiang’s science fiction.When humans are no longer the measure of all things,human feelings also fail to measure the complex and contradictory physical and mental experience of the posthuman,a dissonant,unsettling,and hard-to-capture second-order feeling.The posthuman subjects in his science fiction novels show a posthuman affectivity that transcends anxiety and brutal optimism in the face of life and death,fatalism and free will.