“层中层”的想象与行动:知识群体维权符号的抽象性与标出性

Imagination and Action of the "Subaltern of the Middle Class" : the Abstraction and Markedness of Intellectual Community's Resistance Symbol

过往对维权行动的研究主要集中于底层群体,本文选取了知识群体中的医生、教师、艺术家、作家以及记者作为研究对象,分析了这一群体在维权表达行动中符号的产制与隐喻。本文发现,一方面,作为拥有高度符号化表意实践能力的行为主体,知识群体的维权符号具有不同于底层维权的抽象性,通过行为艺术的身体叙事进行奇观化的视觉抗争。另一方面,受"层中层"想象的影响,知识群体在行动过程中也会借用"弱者框架",这种精英身份与底层叙事的混合使得抗争符号呈现出"临时的标出性翻转"特征。

Previous literatures about social protest tend to focus on the subaltern group.For the present study,doctors,teachers,artists,writers and journalists in the intellectual community were selected to analysis the production and metaphor of the resistance symbol.This article finds that,on one hand,as the main body of protest with the high degree of symbolic and practical ability,the resistance symbol of the intellectual community has abstraction,which is different from the protest of the subaltern group,that is,the spectacular visual resistance,including the rituals as resistance and mourning and the tactics of body resistance(behavioral art).On the other hand,by the influence of the imaged"subaltern of the middle class",the intellectual community borrows a large number of the weak resistance framework in the process of action,and the combine of the elite identity with the subaltern narrative makes the resistance symbol show a"markedness"characteristic.