Journal of Literary Writing and Evaluation

JLWE, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2025, pp.286-294.

Print ISSN: 3078-8129; Online ISSN: 3104-5073

Journal homepage: https://www.lwejournal.com

DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/JLWE.25.2.10

断裂—缝合—划界：
《武器浮生录》中后人类身份的动态重构

邹梦云（Zou Mengyun）

摘要：作为伊恩·班克斯“文明”系列太空歌剧的代表作，《武器浮生录》通过一位身体经历技术重塑、记忆遭受主观改写、身份陷入解构与重构的后人类个体，提出了核心问题：当技术深度介入人类存在时，个体如何维系“作为人”的主体性。尽管小说的政治寓言性已引起学界关注，但其对技术与伦理冲突的深刻剖析，在人工智能快速发展的当下更具现实意义。本文从身体、记忆和伦理意识三个维度，剖析主人公扎卡维身份经历的“断裂-缝合-划界”动态重构过程：身体武器化打破了自我认同的连续性，记忆操控成为重建伦理身份的关键手段，而伦理意识则构成了人类与人工智能的本质区别。研究进一步强调，培养伦理意识应成为人工智能发展的重点方向，只有赋予人工智能系统伦理回应能力，人类才能在未来的人机共生中与其达成伦理共识，共同建立技术时代的道德秩序与责任体系。

关键词：后人类；身份；身体；记忆；伦理意识

作者简介：邹梦云，广东外语外贸大学英文学院2024级博士研究生，主要从事英国现当代文学研究。电邮：flaneur87@163.com。

Title: Fragmentation, Suture, and Demarcation: The Dynamic Reconstruction of Posthuman Identity in Use of Weapons

Abstract: As a seminal work in Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” series of space operas, the Use of Weapons explores a central question through a posthuman individual whose body is technologically remolded, memory subjectively rewritten, and identity deconstructed and reconstructed: How can an individual maintain their subjectivity “as a human” when technology deeply intervenes in human existence? Although the novel’s political allegorical nature has garnered academic attention, its profound analysis of the conflict between technology and ethics holds even greater contemporary relevance in the age of rapidly developing artificial intelligence. This paper dissects the dynamic “fragmentation-suture-demarcation” process of protagonist Zakalwe’s identity reconstruction across three dimensions: body, memory, and ethical consciousness. The weaponization of his body shatters the continuity of self-identity, memory manipulation serves to reconstruct his ethical identity, and ethical consciousness is presented as the essential difference between humans and artificial intelligence. The study underscores that cultivating ethical consciousness should be a primary focus of AI development. Only by embeding the capacity for ethical response in AI systems can humanity achieve ethical consensus with them in a future of human-machine symbiosis and collectively establish a moral order and responsibility system for the digital age.

Keywords: posthuman; identity; body; memory; ethical consciousness

Author Biography: Zou Mengyun, 2024-entry Ph.D. Candidate at the School of English and International Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She mainly focuses on the study of Modern and Contemporary British Literature. Email: flaneur87@163.com.

    Received: 1 Apr 2025 / Revised: 16 Apr 2025 / Accepted: 16 Apr 2025 / Published online: 30 Nov 2025 / Print published: 30 Dec 2025.