鲍德里亚论“虚拟”的时间性

Baudrillard's View on the Temporal Nature of “Similation”

“虚拟”是鲍德里亚后期思想中的一个十分重要的概念。要深入理解这个概念,就必须领会其所表达的时间性的内涵,即“现实”和“虚拟”的“共时”的“双重化”的运动。“双重化”包括“重复”和“差异”的维度“重复”强调“虚拟”作为“现实”的“意义”增殖的维度,而“差异”则强调二者之间不可缩减的“间距”。数码技术的“罪行”正是用“实时”取代了“共时”,用“同一”扼杀了“差异”。

“Similation” is a key concept in Baudrillard's later life. A correct interpretation of this concept relies on a good understanding of its embodiment of time, that is, the synchronic “redoublement” of “reality” and “similation”. “Redoublement” includes the dimensions of “repetition” and “differentiation”; “repetition” stresses “similation” as the dimension of meaning's extension of “reality” while “differentiation” stresses the inerasable “distance” between the two. The “crime” of digital technology is embodied in the replacement of “synchrony” with “real time” and the replacement of “differentiation” with “homogeneity”.