后现代主义与大众文化

Postmodernism and mass culture

后现代主义在当代中国已经成为了"问题",中国前现代状况的存在并不能成为后现代主义不存在的理由。作为西方后工业社会的一种文化现象,后现代主义与大众文化之间存在着同质性和"互文性",大众文化是历史叙述的后现代文本;作为一种理论话语,后现代主义在消解了现代主义中精英文化和大众文化的二元对立结构后成为一种以大众文化为主体的文化。大众文化批评的历史主要是批评大众文化的历史,改写这一历史是后现代主义的学术成果之一。从哲学基础、美学倾向、艺术追求、文化态度和价值立场等五个层面来考量,后现代主义无疑是一种大众文化的辩护理论。

Postmodernism has become an'problom' in contemporary China. The existence of premodernism can't be the excuse of the nonexistence of postmodernism. Postmodernism as a cultural phenomenon in western postindustrial society has the same homogeneity and 'intertextuality ' as mass culture. Mass culture is postmodern text in historic description. As a theoretical discourse, postmodernism dissolves the contradictory dual structure of elitism and mass culture in modernism and grows into a culture that is mainly made up of mass culture. The history criticized by mass culture is mainly the history of criticizing mass culture. The rewriting of the history is one of the achievements made by postmodernism. Postmodernism is undoubtedly a defensive theory in mass culture in terms of philosophic base, aesthetic tendency, artistic pursuit, cultural attitude and valuable stand.