世界中心、群岛与后现代制图术

The World’s Center, Archipelagoes and Postmodern Cartography

在全球化进程不断推进的今天,其负面效应也日益显现:一方面,中心与边缘的二元对立愈加凸现,另一方面,差异性与他者性让位于对普世性的追寻,将我们所处的世界变成了一个同质化的"超级中心"。作者借鉴宋慧慈(Wai Chee Dimock)提出的"星球化"(planétarité/planetarity)概念、爱德华·格里桑(édouard Glissant)的"关系诗学"(poétique de relation)理论,以及程抱一论及中国画时的虚实观,提出从去中心化、多元中心化和偏离中心化的视角审视全球空间,强调不同地域和不同国家之间的平等性、相关联性和对话性,引导读者走出欧洲中心主义这一僵化而单一的思维模式。

As globalisation progresses,its negative effects are becoming increasingly apparent:on the one hand,the dichotomy between centre and periphery is becoming more pronounced,while on theother hand,difference and otherness are giving way to the search for universality,turning the world we live in into a homogenised“super-centre”.Drawing on Wai Chee Dimock’s concept of planetarity,èdouard Glissant’s“poetics of relationship”(poétique de relation),and the view of fullness and emptiness in Chinese painting put forward by Fran?ois Cheng,Bertrand Westphal proposes to examine global space from the decentered,polycentered and excentered perspectives.He emphasizes the equality,interconnectedness and dialogue between different regions and countries,in order to guide the readers out of the rigid and monolithic mode of thinking of euro-centrism.