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

摘要： 本文直面莫莱蒂“远读”策略在方法论还原、阐释学断裂与地缘政治遮蔽上的三重困境,提出“后远读”作为数智时代比较文学研究的新范式。生成式人工智能正驱动计算文学研究从“离散数据实证”向“高维语义生成”开启本体论跃迁。在此基础上,本文构建“生成式批评”理论内核,揭示大模型“潜在空间”与中国古典诗学“言不尽意”的结构性互文,并设计“人-机-人”递归阐释机制,将AI幻觉重构为具有认识论价值的“创造性叛逆”。同时,文章引入斯蒂格勒“药理学”视角,审视算法引发的“风格熵增”与“算法东方主义”危机,呼吁构建本土数字基础设施以捍卫学术主权。本文认为,“后远读”是迈向“数智新人文主义”的关键路径,旨在于硅基智能无限生成的拟像中,重新锚定碳基智能在意义赋予与伦理追问中的主体地位。

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