时间的他者——元宇宙及其慢速时间的潜能

The Other of Time:The Metaverse and Its Potential for Slow Time

元宇宙在本质上可被视为一种时间进程,它将放大和细化主体对时间流的跳转、逆序与延迟,以此展现非线性时间对主观感知的介入。而速度是时间的次级概念,它基于时间产生并呈现其内部动态关系的综合。作为现代性时间逻辑的镜像呈现,元宇宙中的慢速时间不仅构成了对现代速度崇拜的一种倒置,而且实现了对算法时间及其确定性的抵抗。对于主体而言,它实则充当了感知和记忆的新模式,使其得以感受时间的异质性。此外,媒介考古学的立场还展现了早期媒介对断裂和速度的双重压力,以及后期媒介对时间自反性的重新考察。因此,慢速时间显示出了对历史总体性及其压力的对抗,这种压力同时还包含着全球化时间想象对他者的压力、时序霸权对个体本真性的压力,以及时间对空间的压力,对此展开的反思将成为重审当代性的另一种路径。

In essence, the metaverse can be regarded as a time process, which will magnify and refine the jump, reversal, and delay of the subject against the flow of time, so as to show the intervention of non-linear time in the subjective perception. Secondary to time, speed generates and presents the synthesis of its internal dynamic relations based on time. As a mirror presentation of the temporal logic of modernity, slow time in the metaverse not only inverts the modern cult of speed, but also resists algorithmic time and its determinism. Slow time acts simultaneously as a new mode of perception and memory, allowing the subject to perceive the heterogeneity of time. In addition, the perspective of media archaeology displays the dual pressure of earlier media on fracture and speed, and later media’s re-examination of temporal reflexivity. Therefore, slow time reveals a confrontation with historical totality and its pressure, as well as the pressure of globalized temporal imagination on the other, the pressure of chronological hegemony on individual authenticity, and the pressure of time on space. A reflection upon such will become another path to reexamine the question of contemporaneity.