摘要
上世纪八、九十年代有关现代与后现代的争论,涉及它们之间的差异,是否不同的历史时期,在艺术上的分野有何表现。现代与后现代理论界定了像大学这样的西方知识空间中的关键理论问题。杰姆逊便是有关后现代争论的一个始作俑者,他引入认知图绘这一概念对当下时刻进行理论描述。本文将讨论这一争论中的理论与图绘概念,并试图厘清后现代话语的适当使用,当代理论中后现代转向的有用性,以及对这一话语的滥用。首先,本文提出,在更广泛的议题下对现代与后现代加以区分可以凸显当下时刻中的种种新鲜事物并强化与过去的断裂,然而现代与后现代的这一区分必须明确地解释清楚。本文认为后现代话语能为当前社会、文化与理论中的主要新鲜事物与发展提供理论图绘和社会叙述,并能清楚说明当代时刻与过去的承继与断裂。最后,本文还认为现代与后现代话语的多元性有助于说明当前时刻的复杂性,而我们可以运用的理论越有力,我们的理论与批评就能做得越好。
During the 1980s and 1990s,debates about the differences between modernity and postmodernity as historical epochs;modernism and postmodernism in the arts; and wars between modern and postmodern theory defined key theoretical problematics in intellectualized spaces of the West,like the University. Fredric Jameson was one of the initiators of debates over the postmodern,and introduced the concept of cognitive mapping to describe theoretical accounts of the contemporary moment. I discuss conceptions of theory and mapping in the modern and postmodern debates and sort out appropriate uses of the discourse of the postmodern,and the usefulness of the postmodern turn in contemporary theory,as well as some abuses of the discourse. I first suggest that distinctions between the modern and the postmodern in a wide range of issues can highlight novelties in the contemporary moment and discontinuities with the past,but that the distinction in question between the modern and the postmodern must be clearly explicated and the differences articulated. I argue that postmodern discourses help provide theoretical mappings and social narratives of the major novelties and developments in contemporary society,culture,and theory can articulate continuities and discontinuities with the past in the present moment. Finally,I'll argue that a multiplicity of modern and postmodern discourses helps illuminate and articulate the complexity of the present moment and that the more strong theories we have at our disposal,the better work we can do as theorists and critics.
出处
《文艺理论研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第3期73-90,共18页
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
关键词
后现代
认知图绘
杰姆逊
鲍德里亚
当代时刻
postmodern
cognitive mapping
Jameson
Baudrillard
contemporary moment