Terraculturation, Political Dissolution, and Myriad Reorientations

在科幻小說中，許多情節挪用「地域再造」此策略來改造外星球，以適合人類居住。以此爲起點，本論文主張晚近的新作品將這個大架構下的劇情帶到新的方向：透過「移民改造」改造地球上的人類，讓他們更能適應移居外星生活之分要。進一步而言，爲了讓政治架構更能支撐人類的新樓息模式，「移民改造」將分然導致國族政府組織上重大的政治潰散。「移民改造」所帶來的文化變革，將交互促進人類活動各個面向的、大規模的文化重整。本文將提出文學作品中，已經塑造並助長此文化重整之例證。

關鍵字

移民改造；政治瓦解；大規模文化重整

並列摘要

Starting with the idea that in science fiction many plots use the device of terraforming of alien planets to make them more suitable for human inhabitation, this paper argues that more recently new works take this macroplot in a different direction: the need for reforming human beings on Earth to make them more suitable for inhabitation through terraculturation. Further, the work of terraculturation would necessarily lead to significant political dissolutions of national and state formations in order to make political structures more supportive of inhabitory practices. Cultural changes from terraculturation would then interactively precipitate and be pushed along by myriad reorientations taking place at every level of human activity. Examples are provided of literary works already modeling and encouraging this cultural reorientation.