垃圾与现代性

Garbage and Modernity

垃圾问题不仅是一个重要的生态问题、社会问题,而且还是一个重要的美学问题。垃圾和现代性有着密切关系。物质垃圾的产生,一方面固然与现代社会无限丰裕的物质生活相关,另一方面亦与现代社会崇尚"短暂性"有关。到消费社会时期,垃圾更成为社会生产的内在基本动力。垃圾艺术在本质上属于后现代主义,是对传统美学的反叛,也是对现代主义美学的反叛。人类废品与现代性也紧密相关。垃圾的定义具有游移性。任何废弃物都具有两面性,是矛盾状况的象征。成为垃圾在某种意义上是任何事物包括我们人类在内的必然命运。

How to deal with garbage is not only an important ecological and social issue,but links to aesthetics.Garbage is closely related to modernity.The generation of material waste,on the one hand,is connected with the infinitely abundant material in modern society,but on the other hand,it is related to the“temporality”of modern society.In the period of consumer society,garbage has become the basically internal force motivating social production.Garbage art is essentially post-modern,which is a rebellion against traditional aesthetics,as well as modernist aesthetics.Human waste is also closely linked to modernity.The definition of garbage is actually vacillant.No matter waste owns two sides and is a symbol of contradictions.Transforming into rubbish in some way is the inevitable fate of everything,including our human beings.