审美资本与审美资本主义批判

Aesthetic Capital and the Critique of Aesthetic Capitalism

“审美资本”和“审美资本主义”是当代美学研究的前沿议题,该问题阈源于对经济基础与上层建筑空间隐喻的再讨论,亦即,审美和艺术不只属于上层建筑,而是作为一种特殊的意识形态形式,在当代社会发挥出基础性功能;另一方面则是对于审美/艺术与经济如何基于人的情感结构而建构新型关系的纵深探讨。藉此,审美资本主义批判既是对于审美资本在当代社会转型和变迁中所发挥作用和意义的显现,同时也是基于审美资本的特殊性,对审美的资本化及其可能的旧病复发提出的批评与重构。

“aesthetic capital”and“aesthetic capitalism”are frontier topics in studies of aesthetics.They have drawn so much attention partly because of a debate about the metaphorical relationship between the superstructure and the economic infrastructure,which argues that aesthetics and art should not only be deemed as a part of the superstructure but also a very special form of ideology that plays a fundamental role in contemporary society,and partly because of a discussion about the construction of the new relationship between aesthetics/art and economy on the basis of people’s emotional structure.On this account,the critique of aesthetic capitalism is not just a revelation of the role and meaning of aesthetic capital in transforming and shaping contemporary society,but also a critique and reconstruction of aesthetic capital by rejecting its trend of getting capitalized,an old disease that keeps coming back.