International Communication Studies in Literature and Art
ICSLA, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2026, pp.100-108.
Print ISSN: 3079-2711; Online ISSN: 3104-5081
Journal homepage: https://www.icslajournal.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/icsla260110epctc
刘 璇（Liu Xuan），曲 涛（Qu Tao）
摘要：特德·姜的《焦虑是自由引起的眩晕》以技术时代伦理困境为切口，通过棱镜技术对自由意志的解构，揭示了后伦理选择时代的主体性危机与重构。本文聚焦后伦理选择的三种表征，从文学伦理学批评视角探讨技术与伦理的复杂博弈。单向度伦理者的覆灭警示技术资本化对主体性的吞噬；一心向善者演绎了科技祛魅下主体存在的道德救赎；道德觉醒者则找出了科学选择语境下重构主体性的核心路径。当科技解构传统道德因果链，人类需在“真——善”价值导向下缔造向善节点，将伦理自觉内化为技术反思的根基，从而在平行世界的可能性之网中守护人性道德。
关键词：特德·姜；《焦虑是自由引起的眩晕》；后伦理选择
作者简介：刘璇，大连外国语大学英语学院研究生，研究方向：英美小说，电邮：LXuan1223@163.com。曲涛（通讯作者），大连外国语大学英语学院副教授，研究方向：英美小说、叙事学，电邮：qutao@dlufl.edu.cn。
Title: An Exploration of Post-Ethical Choices in Ted Chiang’s Novel Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Abstract: Ted Chiang’s Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom probes the ethical dilemmas of the technological age by deconstructing free will through prism technology, revealing the crisis and reconstruction of subjectivity in the post-ethical-choice era. This paper focuses on three manifestations of post-ethical choices, exploring the intricate interplay between technology and ethics through the lens of literary ethical criticism. The demise of the one-dimensional ethicist serves as a warning about how techno-capitalism consumes subjectivity; the morally resolute individual exemplifies the moral redemption of existential agency amid technological disenchantment; while the ethically awakened subject charts a core pathway for reconstructing subjectivity within the framework of scientific choice. When technology deconstructs traditional moral causality, humanity must forge nodes of benevolence guided by the values of truth-goodness, internalizing ethical awareness as the cornerstone of technological reflexivity, thereby preserving human morality within the web of possibilities across parallel worlds.
Keywords: Ted Chiang; Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom; post-ethical choice
Author Biographies: Liu Xuan, Master’s candidate at Dalian University of Foreign Languages. Research interests: British and American fiction. E-mail: LXuan1223@163.com. Qu Tao (Corresponding Author), Associate Professor, School of English Studies, Dalian University of Foreign Languages. Research interests: British and American fiction, narratology. E-mail: qutao@dlufl.edu.cn.
Received: 22 Mar 2026 / Revised: 24 Apr 2026 / Accepted: 24 Apr 2026 / Published online: 30 Apr 2026 / Print published: 30 May 2026.
