矛盾、危机、聚变——论情势分析与文化研究

Contradiction, Crisis and Fusion: An Inquiry into Conjunctural Analysis and Cultural Studies

文化研究脱胎于特定的历史情势,并以其为分析对象。通过对特定历史情势进行不断分析,文化研究得以持续发展和完善。情势的概念和情势分析经历了长期的“理论化”过程,霍尔、格罗斯伯格、克拉克等人都阐发并运用过情势分析理论。情势可被视为经济、政治、文化、社会等层面的矛盾和危机在“当下历史”时空并发所形成的复杂变局。情势分析是一种以历史为参照、以当下为取向的研究方法,注重考察社会发展长期趋势和转变,能够提供对深层结构性社会文化变迁进行具体分析的路径,可构成文化研究的一种重要范式,具有一定的方法论意义和应用价值。

Having emerged from specific historical conjunctures, Cultural Studies takes the present conjuncture as its object.Continuous analyses of specific historical conjunctures promote the development of Cultural Studies. The formation of both the concept of conjuncture and the methodology of conjunctural analysis has undergone a long process of theorizing. Conjuncture is often considered as a moment of condensation of forces and tendencies, when contractions and crises of economic, political, social and cultural dimensions articulate and fuse at the same time and site.Conjunctural analysis is considered as a strategy of the concrete analysis of the deep structural social movement.Methodologically, conjunctural analysis can be taken as an important paradigm of Cultural Studies.