摘要
本文以美国戏剧家阿瑟·米勒的经典剧作《推销员之死》所刻画的推销员为切入口,通过他的两极化驾驶体验探讨汽车在技术和流动性层面的内在矛盾,及其对社会关系和城市地貌的影响,进而揭示汽车的大众消费如何成为社会控制的有效手段。汽车实际上并非传统意义上的"中性技术",而是一个舒适与危险并存、灵活性与强迫性交织的复杂体系;驾驶也绝非人对汽车的绝对控制,而是人与机器相互融合又彼此限制的博弈,是现代人自由驰骋的移动牢笼。
This paper intends to take Willie’s polarizing driving experience as an entrance to Arthur Millar’s classical play"Death of a Salesman",and tries to explore the inherent contradiction of automobile from a perspective of technology and mobility and its influence on social relations and urban geography,so as to reveal how the mass consumption of automobile becomes an effective means of social control.In fact,automobile is not the"neutral technology"in the traditional sense,but a complex system of both comfort and danger,both flexibility and coercion.It is a equilibrium game of integration and restriction between human beings and machines,a moving cage in modern urban life.
出处
《文学与文化》
2021年第1期101-109,共9页
Literature and Culture Studies
基金
国家社科基金重大项目“美国文学地理的文史考证与学科建构”(16ZDA197)的阶段性成果。
