一个特写: 论大写的你—内/外部读者

A Close-up:On U,the Reader InOutside

在当下这个信息泛滥的即时媒介(imMEDIAted)时代,“细读者”在哪里,谁又是“细读者”?本文引入了一个新的形象:“内/外部读者”,着力说明其处于间隙间的模糊性和自拍式的主客观性(既是主体又是客体)。“内/外部读者”透过“窗口”去观看也被看到,通常也被反向阅读,既处在内部又在外部,被召唤又召唤着“你”;确切地说,他不在内部,但也肯定不在外部,而是被“公开地”邀请作为你们中的某人或某些人,这都是些被自由创生而成,并被宽泛地普遍化为如此存在的人,亦即互联网中“大写的你(U)”,这一数据点式的晶体管/读者的行为,就像窗口上的蝴蝶一样。爱好阅读的读者,用更古典的姿态,“细致”和“深入”地对文本做出“回应”。他没有在模拟-数字双向迁移的过程中消失,而是隐藏得更深,成为一个即时重新调整的、压扁的(解体的)超级(表层)读者。(打上X的)阅读依然继续。

Where,or who,is the“close reader”today in the age of imMEDIAted information overflow?This essay introduced a new figure,the“inoutside reader”,focusing on its interstitially interactive ambiguity,its selfie-like sobjectivity(simultaneously subjective and objective).Seen and seeing through the“window”,the inoutside reader that often counter-reads as well is called and calling“you”out there and in here;neither exactly an insider nor definitely an outsider but“openly”invited as one or those of you(vous)freely generated and liberally generalized as such,“U”in the net-work,this data-point-like transistor-reader,acts like a butterfly on the window.The bookish reader,more classically sedentary,“closely”and“deeply”“responsive”to the text,is not lost in this bidirectional analog-digital migratory process but rather entrenched therein,emerging as a sort of instantly recalibrated,(de-)compressed super(ficial)-reader.Reading(X)goes on.