大众文化视觉表意实践与当代中国社会心态

Practice of Visual Expression of Mass Culture and Social Mentality in Contemporary China

大众文化作为当代中国的主导性文化形态之一,对于视觉形象符号的依赖程度已经到了无以复加的地步。其视觉表意实践的文化生产与消费过程,不仅直观地呈现了这一点,而且清晰地映射出当代中国的总体精神面貌和社会心态。这一过程既深刻揭示出当代中国在社会心态层面"有限度的自由意志"、"有限度的反思立场"、"有限度的规则意识"等一系列矛盾结构;又充分说明了大众文化在视觉正义、视觉伦理和视觉素养等方面所蕴含的文化形塑力。当代中国的消费主义、犬儒主义倾向以及由此所带来的社会转型问题,亦可借此得到批判性与建设性并重的深度反思。

As one of the dominant cultural forms of contemporary China,mass culture depends on visual image symbols to a great degree.The process of cultural production and consumption in the practice of visual expression has not only indicated this,but also clearly reflected the overall mental attitude and social mentality in contemporary China,deeply revealing the series of conflicting structures of limited free will,limited introspection standpoint and limited rule consciousness,and the cultural force of mass culture in the aspects of visual justice,visual ethics,and visual literacy.By virtue of this process,the tendency of consumerism and cynicism and the question of social transformation in contemporary China can also be reflected critically and constructively.