从“洞穴隐喻”到“异托邦”——论异域形象的空间化想象

From the"Allegory of the Cave" to "Heterotopia":On the Spatial Imagination of Exotic Images

异域形象即空间化的想象。从柏拉图的"洞穴隐喻"到麦克卢汉的"地球村",再到福柯的"异托邦",折射出传播技术对空间和形象进行的重构。为此,异域形象研究要着重探讨:空间如何区分了主体和他者的界限,并由此强化了主体的既有认知,进而将异域形象置于一种客体化的想象境地;传播技术如何在演进的过程中逐步打通了空间的界限,并重构了空间的概念,进而影响到形象的传播;传播技术将地理意义上的空间转变为身份意义上的空间的同时,又以身份及认同的力量重新定义了抽象的文化空间,由此导致异域形象问题的含混状态。

Exotic image can in some sense be interpreted as spatial imagination. Plato ~ ＂Allegory of the Cave＂, McLuhan＇s ＂Global Village＂ and Foucault~ ＂Heterotopia＂ all reflect the ability of restructuring space and imagination of communication technology. To this end, exotic images should focus on three issues： How is the self and the other demarcated by space , and therefore reinforces the self＇s existing cognition; How communication technology gradually opens up the spatial boundaries and restructures the concepts of space ; The ambiguous exotic imagery arises because communication technology redefines and gives social significance changes space from a geographical to an identity concept, at the same time, to the abstract concept of space through the power of identity and identification.