The Commodification of Artificial Intelligence: The Ethical Colonization of Technocapitalism in Klara and the Sun


Journal of Literary Writing and Evaluation (Print ISSN 3078-8129; Online ISSN: 3104-5073)

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JLWEVol.1, No.1,2025,pp. 56-64.


人工智能的商品化:
《克拉拉与太阳》中技术资本主义的伦理殖民

 

    康(Yang Kang[1]

 

摘要:本文以石黑一雄《克拉拉与太阳》中人工智能体克拉拉的商品化生命周期(销售—消费—废弃)为分析框架,揭示技术资本主义如何通过空间编码、情感剥削与认知异化完成对伦理秩序的殖民。研究发现:在销售环节,商店通过空间层级与能源垄断将克拉拉的“人性化”设计异化为商品属性;在消费环节,用户的情感依赖被转化为无酬数据劳动,重构了数字时代的剥削逻辑;在废弃环节,符号系统的强制淘汰、控制社会的程序化暴力与镜像误认的认知陷阱共同解构伦理价值,使技术物沦为可弃置的伦理残骸。研究表明,技术资本主义通过商品化链条将伦理批判收编为系统再生产的话语原料,最终暴露出以资本增殖为核心的暴力本质。

关键词:人工智能商品化;空间编码;情感剥削;符号暴力;认知异化


Title: The Commodification of Artificial Intelligence: The Ethical Colonization of Technocapitalism in Klara and the Sun

Abstract: This paper analyzes the commodified life cycle (selling-consumption-abandonment) of the artificial intelligence Klara in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, revealing how technocapitalism colonizes ethical order through spatial encoding, emotional exploitation, and cognitive alienation. The study demonstrates that in the selling phase, the store’s spatial hierarchy and energy monopolization reduce Klara’s “humanity” to a commodity attribute; in the consumption phase, users’ emotional dependence is transformed into unpaid data labor, reconstructing exploitation logic in the digital age; in the abandonment phase, the symbolic system’s mandatory elimination, society’s procedural violence, and the cognitive trap of mirror misrecognition collectively deconstruct ethical value, reducing technological objects to disposable ethical remnants. The research indicates that technocapitalism co-opts ethical critique into systemic reproduction through the commodity chain, ultimately exposing its violent essence centered on capital accumulation.

Keywords: AI commodification; spatial encoding; emotional exploitation; symbolic violence; cognitive alienation



[1]     康(Yang Kang, 广东外语外贸大学英文学院博士研究生,研究方向:英国当代文学。电邮:yangkang1997@foxmail.com