声音的异托邦:KTV中的自恋主义与时空压缩

Heterotopia of Sound: Narcissism and Time-Space Compression in KTV

作为城市中常见的社会文化场所,KTV蜂巢式的空间结构,幽暗暧昧的光线,以及可供消费者自由调控的声音设备,使得置身其中的人群将其当做释放情绪的异托邦。KTV中的声音修饰,可以看作自恋主义的精神文化投射;无调式的声音隐含了现代社会中个人身份认同的焦虑与挣扎,改变了传统意义上对“噪音”的理解;戛然而止的声音,可谓现实困境击碎异托邦空间的隐喻。通过金钱购买时间来实现空间改造的欲望,可谓当下社会时空压缩进程中拼贴社会的缩影。

As a common social and cultural space in cities,Karaoke Television (KTV) has a spatial structure like a honeycomb,dark and ambiguous light and sound equipment that is controlled by consumers.These characteristics of KTV make it a Heterotopia for people to relax.The sound effects in KTV reflect the spiritual cultures of narcissists;the atonal sound in KTV embodies people's anxiety over their identities in contemporary societies;and the suddenly stopped sound in KTV is a metaphor showing that the heterotopia is broken by realities.In the KTV heterotopia,time is bought by money,and space is restructured,which reflects the realities in contemporary societies.