“加利福尼亚意识形态”批判:论斋藤环的媒介观

The Critique of“California Ideology”:On Saito Tamaki’s Thought of Media

受哲学家东浩纪的影响,日本批评家斋藤环在出版于2007年的《媒介不存在》中展开了对滥觞于麦克卢汉的媒介理论传统亦即“加利福尼亚意识形态”或“内爆主义”的批判。斋藤环在对“延伸论”以及“地球村构想”的批判中建立起其“反内爆”“反媒介拜物教”的媒介观。不同于极力鼓吹媒介力量的、认定其形塑人类的论者,斋藤环援用拉康精神分析学说以论证“内爆”之不可能性,进而为发轫于20世纪90年代的媒介迷思祛魅。就斋藤环凭借对“听觉空间”“东洋哲学”之特权性的否定来反对学者神化媒介的观点而言,或可把他审慎的媒介观视作一种“否定神学”。

In the book The Media Doesn’t Exist,which was published in 2007,Japanese critic Saito Tamaki has continued finishing Azuma Hiroki’s critique work of a theory tradition—“California Ideology”or“implosionism”—originated from Marshall Mcluhan’s media theory.Saito’s thought of media,“anti-implosion”and“anti-media fetishism”,is based on the critic of two inferences—“media as extension”and the concept of“global village”.Different from those scholars who strongly advocated the power of media and claimed that media would shape human beings,Saito invoked Lacan’s psychoanalysis theory to demonstrate the impossibility of“implosion”,and then dispelled the media myth which began in 1990s.As far as Saito showed an attitude against those scholars’argument struggling to deify media by denying the privilege of“acoustic space”and“Oriental philosophy”,his prudent thought of media might be regarded as a special kind of“negative theology”.