现代性、景观消费和身体战争——关于身体问题的历时性考察

Modernity,Spectacle Consumption and Body War——A Diachronic Examination of Body Problems

从工业时代起,机器剥离了人的工具性,身体重新在文化中找到自己的主体性。自此,身体就一直处于祛魅—赋魅的循环之中。工业文化使得身体失去了自己的劳动地位,只有被附会成商品,才能在拜物教中寻找到自己的一席之地。从美颜相机到短视频直播,21世纪发生了一场以身体消费为主角的狂欢。身体作为视觉文化的重要组成部分,在信息科学时代沦为赋魅的他者,被随意地修改和扭曲。身体或者说身体的符号价值成为橱窗中的商品,而贩卖这种价值的电影院与信息网络则成为21世纪的“巴黎拱廊”。二者都表现出现代性对物的膜拜和对主体的消解。身体时刻处于看与被看、指涉与被指涉的关系中,数字资本掠夺走了身体在虚体中产生的价值,一场对身体价值进行争夺的战争在后人类时代开始了。

Since the industrial age,machines have stripped away human instrumentality,and the body has rediscovered its subjectivity in culture.Since then,the body has been in a cycle of disenchantment and enchantment.However,industrial culture has caused the body to lose its labor status.Only when it is attached to a commodity can it find its place in fetishism.From beauty cameras to short video live broadcasts,a carnival with body consumption as the protagonist has taken place in the 21st century.As an important part of visual culture,the body has become a charmed other in the era of information science,being modified and distorted at will.The body or its symbolic value has become a commodity in the window,and the cinemas and information networks that sell this value have become the Paris Arcades of the 21st century.Both show modernity's worship of objects and dissolution of the subject.The body is always in a relationship between seeing and being seen,referring and being referred.Digital capital has robbed the value of the body in the virtual body.A war for the value of the body has begun in the post-human era.