数字影像时代的大众文化——兼论大众文化与“虚拟现实”的关系

Mass culture in the age of digital image:The relationship between "Virtual Reality" and Mass culture

大众文化是一个充满争议的话题,它与工业文明的发展密切相关。工业文明过渡到信息时代,大众文化出现了新的特征。它先是印证了福柯所说的"规训"社会设想,同时又以抵抗的方式颠覆了规训;在信息时代,数字影像和"虚拟现实"使得大众文化成为多种力量"角力"的场所。文章以数字影像时代的大众文化为切入点,探讨了大众文化的霸权与整合、现实与虚拟、宰制与抵抗,以期对大众文化作新的审视。

Mass culture is a controversial issue.It is closely related to the development of industrial civilization.In the transition to the information age of industrial civilization,mass culture shows new features.First,it confirms Michel Foucault s idea of the ＂discipline society＂,at the same time,it is in the way to resist the subversion of discipline;at the age of information,digital images and ＂virtual reality＂ makes a place in mass culture where variety of powers struggle against each other.This article chooses the digital images as the new breakthrough point to discuss the hegemony and integration, the virtual and real, and the domination and resistance of mass culture. The author want to find a new ponder to probe deeply into the mass culture.