仁、虚拟影像、共通感:近代中国的宇宙媒介与政治哲学

Ren(Benevolence),Virtual Image and Common Sense:Cosmomedia and Political Philosophy in Modern China

近代中国存在着一种融合传统儒家佛学、西方科学技术、现代视觉媒介的独特世界观-见——宇宙媒介。仁、气、以太、图像、电影、虚拟影像等,构成了一种齐物、通人、统合世界的媒介力,支撑着大同、平等的政治想象,成为康有为、谭嗣同等维新变革思想家的政治哲学基础。这种宇宙媒介是一种有机的媒介思想,能产生道德情感,进而产生道德义务,不忍之心的传统信念在虚拟影像带来的“消失了的距离”面前,证实了共通感的存在,进而使大同世界和全球白话成为可能。

There existed a worldview of cosmomedia that integrated classical Confucian and Daoist ideas with Western media like aether and panorama painting.Cosmomedia is a kind of organic media thinking based on common sense among people and induction between heaven and mankind,thereby generating moral obligations and becoming the foundation for the political philosophy of Kang Youwei,Tan Sitong,and other reformist and revolutionary intellectuals.It constitutes a kind of media power to unify things,people,and the world,and supports the political imagination of great harmony.In the face of the“lost distance”brought about by the virtual image,the traditional belief of the unbearable heart confirms the existence of common sense and thus makes the world of great harmony and global vernacular possible.