技术、身体与流动城市:流动性视角下上海地铁中的日常交往与空间实践

TECHNOLOGY, BODY AND MOBILE CITY:DAILY COMMUNICATIVE AND SPATIAL PRACTICES IN SHANGHAI METRO FROM PERSPECTIVE OF MOBILITIES

本文以流动性理论为视角,以上海地铁为个案,探讨地铁中介的日常交往和空间实践的意义。研究发现:乘客与运营者围绕规则不断展开互动与协商,将地铁塑造为“契约空间”。乘客在相遇中展开丰富的“具身性交流”,将地铁转化为充满情感的流动“展演空间”。跟随乘客进入地铁的传播媒介,重塑了地铁的流动经验和社会关系与社交场景,推动着以“复合流动性”为基础的“混合空间”的生成。在人与交通技术的互构中,地铁被转化为有着独特节奏与意义的“流动城市”。研究为在身体、技术和空间关系中讨论城市交通的传播地理提供了具体思路。

Metros are not only important traffic facilities, but also organize urban life in complex ways and create unique and important urban experiences. Using theory of mobilities, this essay views passengers' metro ride as important spatial practice, and analyzes daily social interactions initiated by Shanghai metro mobilities, and explores how the unique human-land relationship is made possible by the mediation of metro technology. It is found that: 1)The operation of the Shanghai metro particularly relies on specific rules as guarantees, but the implementation of these rules shows great flexibility. Operators propagate and maintain rules through symbolization and materialization, making rules serve spatial safety and efficiency;Passengers not only passively abide by the rules, but also actively misappropriate or even transform the rules, transforming operators into supervised objects. 2)The Shanghai metro provides special and important public spaces for people to participate in urban life in a tangible way. The relative closeness of the metro directs people's attention towards the interior of the space. 3)The communication media that follow passengers into the metro initiate mediated riding experience, expand the social relations of metro space through "perpetual contact", reconstruct metro spatiality by creating multiple situations, which promote the generation of "hybrid space" based on "compound mobilities". "Contract space," "performative space" and "hybrid space" constitute three facets of the spatiality generated by the interaction and mutual construction between metro technology and the human bodies. The metro provides possibilities for complex social interactions and public life, and is transformed into "mobile city" with unique rhythm and significance due to people's daily communicative and spatial practices.