永恒与误认——关于媒体城市空间的思考

Eternity and Misidentification-Reflections on Media City Space

在21世纪这最初的20年里,人类沉浸于网络和数字虚拟技术带来的“巨大幸福”之中,各种形式的媒体技术已经渗透到人类社会的肌腠脏腑,也深刻改变了人的具体存在。本文旨在分析指出:是人类创造行为背后的内驱力——与时间抗衡而渴望达到永生的本能——驱动媒体技术的发展并决定其未来形态,从而延展了巴赞的电影本体论在当代媒体现实中的意义。在万物流变的铁律面前,肉身的脆弱并未因科技进步而有太大改善。人类转而抛弃个体经验和肉身,企图通过灵魂(意识)永存达到永恒的目的。笔者试图从弗洛伊德和拉康的精神分析的视角,解析当代媒体城市构建中的典型技术形态和文化案例——AR、LED墙屏、人机界面、电视剧集等,论证“双重误认”乃是人类抛弃肉身、寻求灵魂(意识)永生的潜在意识,从而能够以批判的目光审视当下媒体城市飞速发展和技术狂欢的本质。

In the first 20 years of the 21st century,human has been in-dulged in the“enormous happiness”provided by digital technology and network.Various kinds of media technology has penetrated into every part of human society,and profoundly changed the concrete existence of human be-ing.This paper purposes to analyze and indicate that what promotes the de-velopment of media technology and determines its future form is the driving force behind human creatiye behavior,that is,the instinctive desire of im-mortality,and extends the significance of Andre Bazin's Ontology of Photo-graphic Image in contemporary media reality.Facing the nature order of change,the fragility of human flesh has not been greatly improved by tech-nological progress.Thus,human beings abandon individual experience and physical body,and instead attempt to achieve eternity through perpetuating soul(consciousness).In this paper,the author tries to analyze the typical technology forms and cultural cases-AR,LED screen wall,human machine interface,TV series,etc.-in the construction of contemporary media cities from the perspective of Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalysis.This paper also indicates that“dual misidentification”is the subconscious of human to aban-don physical body and seek the perpetuation of soul(consciousness),and critically elucidate the essence of rapid development and technological carnival of the media city.