作为消费的批判或批判的消费化

Critiques as Consumption or Consumerization of Critiques

当代社会的批判活动出现了消费化的倾向,批判的休闲化、商业化、私人化是批判消费化的重要表现。知识分子向价值中立的专家演变,大众趣味的权力化,大众传媒对世界的戏剧化、符号化、碎片化"转播",社会整体的景观化,批判距离的丧失,这些现象使得批判活动消费化成为可能。批判消费化表征着现代性焦虑之自我治疗,同时它使得整个文化生活水准下降,批判所能开启的可能性被窒息,批判与资本达成了妥协。如何超越批判的消费化是一个重大的课题,对于知识分子而言,首要的是凸显和坚守真诚。

Nowadays, activities of critique are becoming consumerized marked by signs of leisure, commercialization and privatization. Five factors have made this possible. They are. the in-tellectuals assuming a neutral attitude, the taste of the mass gaining more power, the relay of the mass media turning dramatic, semiotic and fragmental, the spectacular of the society, and the loss of critique distance. While consumerization of critique may function as self-treatment of anxi- ety of modernity, it also lowers the standard of cultural life. Possibilities that critiques may initi- ate are checked, and critiques compromise with the capital. How to get out of the trap of con- sumerization of critiques is a major task for study. As far as the intellectuals are cncerned, it is of utmost importance to adhere to principles of honesty and sincerity.