Technological Enchantment and Colonial Alienation: Body Politics and Critique of Anthropocentrism in John Scalzi's Six-Part Series the Old Man's War

John Scalzi's six-part series The Old Man 's War (2005's War ( -2015) ) employs science fiction narrative to reveal the new forms of colonial violence in the era of technological capitalism, critiquing the pathological logic of anthropocentrism in interstellar expansion.This paper first analyzes how the Colonial Defense Force (CDF)'s "body replacement" technology alienates life into calculable war tools, demonstrating how biopower achieves extreme discipline through genetic modification, neural enhancement, and other technological devices.Second, it explores how the "brain companion" system and memory cloning technology internalize colonial ideology into soldiers' cognitive structures, enabling the "civilizing mission" discourse to be reproduced through neural technology.Finally, Scalzi's narrative exposes the cognitive closedness of colonial narcissism: when humans view themselves on a cosmic scale, it not only leads to systemic violence against others but also obscures the fundamental ethical dilemmas of life in the technological age.The warning of the six-part series lies in the fact that only by transcending technocentrism and reconstructing a cognitive paradigm of coexistence can we avoid the self-replication of colonial logic on an interstellar scale.