05.一段简史 ／A SHORT HISTORY

［05］一段简史／A SHORT HISTORY

首先：日常工具将我们的力量和能力外化；他们是刚性的。我们的肌肉、骨骼和关节会离开身体，走向简单的机械，即模仿筋骨的杠杆和起重机般。作为我们能量来源的高温，出自我们的生物体，被装配成电机。新技术最终外化了我们神经系统里信息和操作，这些信息和代码是软性的。一部分的认知将最终走向这一新工具。 First: everyday tools externalize our forces and capacities; they are hard. Our muscles, bones, and joints leave the body, as it were, and are fitted out as simple machines—levers and hoists—which mimic their functioning. Our high temperature, the source of our energy, comes out of our organism, and is fitted out as motor machines. The new technologies, finally, externalize the messages and operations that circulate in our neuronal system—information and codes, which are soft. Cognition, in part, is fitted out in this new tool.

那么今天，在圣德尼后代的脖子上还留下什么呢？ What then remains, today, above the cut necks of St. Denis’s sons and daughters?