关键词: 后远读, 生成式批评, 言不尽意, 算法东方主义, 数智新人文主义

Abstract: Confronting the triple dilemmas of Moretti’s “distant reading”—methodological reductionism, hermeneutic rupture, and geopolitical occlusion, this paper proposes “post-distant reading” as a new paradigm for comparative literature studies in the age of digital intelligence. Generative AI is driving a fundamental ontological shift in computational literary studies, pivoting from the “positivism of discrete data” towards “high-dimensional semantic generation.” On this basis, this paper constructs the theoretical core of “generative criticism,” unveiling a structural intertextuality between the “latent space” of large language models (LLMs) and the classical Chinese poetic concept of “meaning beyond words” (yán bù jìn yì). Furthermore, it develops a recursive “human-LLMs-human” hermeneutic mechanism, reconfiguring AI hallucinations into “creative treason” with epistemological value. Drawing on Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological perspective, this paper critically examines the algorithm-induced increase in “stylistic entropy” and the crisis of “algorithmic Orientalism,” and calls for the construction of indigenous digital infrastructures to safeguard academic sovereignty. It is argued that “post-distant reading” represents a critical path towards “Digital-Intelligent New Humanism,” seeking to re-anchor the agency of carbon-based intelligence in meaning-making and ethical inquiry amidst the simulacra infinitely generated by silicon-based intelligence.

Key words: post-distant reading, generative criticism, meaning beyond words, algorithmic Orientalism, digital-intelligent new humanism