连接、隔离与可沟通性:道路的媒介性考察

Connection,Isolation,and Communicability:A Study of the Mediatization of Roads

既有研究框架强调道路的功能和影响,将道路对象化和客体化而消解了其主体性。以媒介本体论切入道路研究,道路的媒介性就在于它作为中介“指引”了人们的行为,形成既连接又隔离的社会关系。依此研究路径,道路就是一种视野,也是一种研究取向和一种方法论的实施。这一研究转向中,道路从处于从属地位的联系主客体的工具,转化为能够决定人的存在方式、展现人的存在状态的独立于人的主体。如此,与人的存在相关的历史、实践、时空和隐喻,都是呈现道路的具体面向,也是言说道路的方式。道路媒介的核心价值在于其可沟通性。道路的可沟通研究是一种范式创新,这一研究范式将可沟通性作为考察道路媒介的基本点,它的理论建构立足于人类的道路实践。同时,道路的可沟通研究也以中介、“指引”、沟通等为预设和目标,借此观照道路建设。以智慧道路建设为契机,道路的“可沟通性”建设应以构建“交通网”“社会网”“信息网”“意义网”四重网络体系为目标。

With an emphasis on the function and impact of roads,current research frameworks view roads as objects,which deconstructs their subjectivity.Under the perspective of media ontology,the mediatization of roads lies in their role as mediator“guiding”people’s behavior,forming connecting yet isolated social rela-tionships.Following this research path,roads are not only a perspective but also a research orientation and methodological implementation,changing from their subordinate role as tools for connecting subject and object to independent entities capable of determining people’s existential mode and reflecting their entities independent of the state of being.Accordingly,history,practices,time-space and metaphors related to human existence all present specific aspects of roads and serve as ways to articulate them.The core value of road mediatization lies in its communicability and the research on the communicability of roads is therefore an innovative paradigm.With communicability as a basic point,its theory is built on people’s road practices by taking mediator,“guidance”and communication as presuppositions and targets to examine road construction.Making use of the smart road construction,the development of road“communicability”should aim to estab-lish a four-tier network system comprising networks of communication,society,information and meaning.