由数字技术引领的第四次科技革命在理论上可以搭建一个加速实现世界主义的“数字巴别塔”，它的误用却对世界主义的两大核心诉求——民族平等与世界和平造成了持续的威胁。究其原因，现代数字技术通过与资本的合流形成了技术 - 经济 - 政治的复合型霸权，推动了事实层面的全球化，而非规范意义上的世界主义。对于如何限制数字霸权、建立数字技术和世界主义的正向联结，技术性的路径认为技术革新本身就能使其回到造福国际社会的道路上来，但大众的自发行动难以突破大型科技公司的技术统治；政治性的路径以欧盟数字主权为代表，用强制性的法律 / 制度框架限制数字技术的误用，但欧盟内部的民主赤字更加深了国家间的数字鸿沟。针对两种立场的弊端，数字世界主义提出应以政治路径规训数字技术的发展和应用，以国际关系民主化规训地缘政治引起的国际数字危机。

世界主义, 数字技术, 数字霸权, 数字主权, 国际关系民主化

In theory, the fourth wave of technological revolution led by digital technology could accelerate the realization of cosmopolitanism, or a Digital Babel. The misuse of digital technology, however, has been constantly threatening the very core of cosmopolitanism——national equality and worldwide peace. The reason is that the digital technology and capital forms a complex hegemony of technology-economy-politics, pushing forward the factual sense of globalization rather than normative cosmopolitanism. As for how to limit digital hegemony and create a positive connection between digital technology and cosmopolitanism, the technological approach believes that technical innovation itself can benefit international society while people’s spontaneous actions can hardly break through the domination of Big Tech. The political approach, taking EU digital sovereignty as an example, builds an institutional framework to restrict the misuse of digital technology while the democratic deficit within EU deepens the digital gap between countries.

cosmopolitanism, digital technology, digital hegemony, digital sovereignty, democratization of international relations