论数字化时代的消费批判:幻境的制造与消解

Creation and Dissipation of Illusionary Space:Criticisms of Consumption in the Digital Age

现代社会在实现了数字化进步的同时,还制造了数字化“幻境”。数字幻境将人笼络在虚拟空间之中,人的生存被数字覆盖和中介,个体的自由在数字幻境中得到了虚假的实现,实质上自由在更高的意义上被数字结构所遮蔽,人的需求在数字幻境中表现为浅层次物质需求与符号需求,真正的需求隐而不彰。数字化时代的到来,数字资本成功地在个体消费过程中输出了消费主义的意识形态,消费主义乘势通过“符号消费”“数字消费”操纵了人们的消费。批判数字化世界的消费主义成为历史唯物主义的时代性课题。

While promoting the development of modern societies,digitalization also leads to illusionary spaces that people are put in a virtual space and the existence of people is reflected in the digital forms.In the illusionary space,people’s freedom and needs are not really fulfilled but narrowly defined as material and symbolic needs.In the digital age,digital capital successfully establishes consumerism in the consumption of people and controls the consumption behaviors of the people.The criticism of consumerism in the digital world has become an important theme of the time for historical materialism.