技术的政治:省思海外世界的视觉现代性研讨

The Politics of Technology: Reflections on Overseas Modern Chinese Visual Cultural Studies

文字与图像的辩证关系,是现代中国文学研究的重要议题。由海外世界所提供的系列解读,特别是周蕾"技术化观视"的见解,虽然凸显了视觉在现代文学缘起过程中的关键位置,但也夸大了其与文字的对立。这种夸大,暗含一种"技术"殖民的思维:透过强调技术的归属权,将中西双方设定为原始与现代的关系。在此,"技术"不仅是一种物质状态,更是一种意识结构。如果仅仅只是强调其中的一面,那么就有可能带来冷战思路;唯有不断地意识到其互动对话,我们才能有效地防止视觉研究的泛文字化,并通过关联性地看待视觉的"内容"及"技术",来历史化地理解"中国"和"现代"。

The dialectical relationship between words and images is an important issue of modern Chinese literary studies.Although the interpretations from the overseas,especially Rey Chow＇s ＂technologized visuality,＂highlight the key position of visuality in the making process of modern Chinese literature,they exaggerate the opposition between words and images,and this exaggeration implies a colonial thinking of technology which sets the relationship between China and the Western as that between the primitive and the modern through its emphasis on Western-ownership of technology. Thus,technology becomes not only a state of matter but also a structure of ideology. If the emphasis lies on only one of the two aspects,the Cold War mentality may be resulted. Only through the promotion of the interaction between the aspects of technology,the tendency of pan-words in the visual studies can only be prevented,and thus the historicized understanding of ＂China＂and ＂modern＂can be achieved.