虚假存在与景观时间——德波《景观社会》的文本学解读

False Existence and Spectacular Time——A Textual Reading of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle

本文主要讨论了德波《景观社会》一书中关于时间问题的诸多观念,特别是他提出的景观时间一说。不同于前传统社会中的循环时间与工业社会中的不可逆时间,景观时间是一种制造伪事件的时间积木。现代社会为人们节约出大量的闲暇时间,这些时间都成为特定的由影像支配的景观时间积木,这种时间积木是通过种种广告欺骗和故意误导来填充的。在那些虚假的被制造出来“伪节日”之中,资本家通过景观强迫我们去买自己并不需要的东西。说到底,景观时间的本质就是异化消费时间。

This paper mainly discusses the ideas of time in Guy Debord＇s Society of the Spectacle, especially his idea of spectacular time. Different from the circular time in the pre - traditional society and the irreversible time in the industrial society, the spectacular time is a kind of toy bricks producing pseudo-events. Modern society saves people a great deal of leisure time, all of which becomes specific spectacular time dominated by images and filled with varieties of advertising deceptions and deliberate misleading. In the created false “pseudo- festivals” capitalists force us to buy what we do not need by the spectacles. At bottom, the essence of spectacular time is alienated consumptive time.