School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Health Sociol Rev. 2021 Nov;30(3):323-338. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1976068. Epub 2021 Sep 14.
Increasingly, people turn to online sources for health information, creating human-non-human relationalities. Health websites are considered accessible in scope and convenience but can have limited capacity to accommodate complexities. There are concerns about who gets to 'assemble' with these resources, and who is excluded. Guided by Ahmed's socio-political theories of emotions, we questioned our feelings as we intra-acted with a consumer information website about back pain (MyBackPain). This encouraged us to approach resource evaluation in a way that alters conventional rational/cognitive judgement processes. Our inquiry was 'supra-disciplinary' involving public health, sociology, allied health and consumer collaborators. Specifically, we considered - the feelings circulating between bodies/objects and implicated in MyBackPain's affective practices; - the marks, images or beliefs MyBackPain makes on bodies/objects; and - how these intra-actions pushed in some directions and away from others. Although Ahmed would likely not consider herself 'post-humanist', we argue that her socio-political theories of how objects and emotions entangle are of great interest to furthering critical post-human understandings of health. Rather than threatening decision-making, we suggest that feelings (and their affects) are central to it. The article demonstrates the productive potential of critical post-human inquiry in identifying/countering 'othering' possibilities, and catalysing a 'nomadic shift' towards new human-non-human formations.
越来越多的人转向在线资源获取健康信息，从而建立起人与非人的关系。健康网站在范围和便利性方面被认为是可及的，但可能在容纳复杂性方面的能力有限。人们担心谁有资格“与这些资源组合”，以及谁被排除在外。受 Ahmed 的社会政治情感理论的启发，我们在与一个关于背痛的消费者信息网站（MyBackPain）互动时，对自己的感受提出了质疑。这促使我们以一种改变传统理性/认知判断过程的方式来评估资源。我们的探究是“超学科的”，涉及公共卫生、社会学、联合健康和消费者合作者。具体来说，我们考虑了——在 MyBackPain 的情感实践中，身体/物体之间以及与之相关的情感循环；——MyBackPain 在身体/物体上留下的痕迹、图像或信仰；——这些相互作用如何推动某些方向，又如何远离其他方向。虽然 Ahmed 可能不会认为自己是“后人类主义者”，但我们认为，她关于物体和情感纠缠的社会政治理论对于进一步理解健康的批判后人类观点非常有意义。我们认为，情感（及其影响）是决策的核心，而不是威胁决策。本文展示了批判后人类探究在识别/对抗“他者化”可能性方面的生产潜力，并催化了一种新的人类-非人类形成的“游牧转变”。
