表征与媒介

当今世界,人类文化中弥漫着各种图像。图像文本本身变成了晚期现代文化的流行符号。这种视觉符号的意义取决于通过具有可通约性的语言媒介传播的各种表征。表征既指通过媒介对既存某物准确或歪曲的反映,也指给予事物意义的方式,更指的是事件的构成因素。作为构成因素的表征是一个针对图像,通过对在场和不在场的事实追问生产意义的实践过程。这个意指过程受到意识形态、权力及其运作方式的影响和制约,因此它也是一个制造陈规和打破陈规的过程。

In the modern world,human culture is saturated by the image in a variety of different forms. Images per se have become the prevalent sign of the late-modern culture. The significance of this kind of visual symbols depends on different representations spread by the commensurable language media. Representation refers to accurate or distorted reflection of things through media,ways to give things significance,and constitutive of event.Representation as a constitutive is a practice process closely questioning the productive significance through present and absent facts centering on an image. This process of signification is influenced and restricted by ideology,power and their ways of operation,so it is also a process of setting up andcontesting stereotypes.