摘要
现代性有其三维空间。它是一系列的制度形式和进程——资本主义、产业主义、民族主义和全球性。这是个与众不同的文化形构,其中,理性和欲望、科学和信念、共同修正和互惠为最高权力而竞争;它还是个社会和心理环境,其中,社会关系和联系、自我概念与经验的基本结构受到不断地修正和再造。因此,理解现代传媒——作为产业、文化体系和日常经验的核心因素——对合理分析现代性及其现在的变体是绝对必要的。后现代作家们认为后期资本主义的核心生产资产是思想和专门技术,这可能是正确的,但它们仍然是有价格的商品,而不是供每个人共同分享的公用品。
Modernity has three dimensions. It is a cluster of institutional forms and processes-capitalism, industrialism, nationalism, and globality. It is a distinctive cultural formation in which rationality and desire, science and faith, commodification and reciprocity, compete for supremacy. And it is a social and psychological environment in which social affiliations and connections, textures of experience and conceptions of self are continually altered and re-made. Understanding the modern media of communications-as industries, cultural system and core dimension of everyday experience-is therefore absolutely essential to a proper analysis of modernity and its present mutations. Post-modern writers may be correct to argue that the core productive assets of Late Capitalism are ideas and expertise rather than land and industrial plant, but these assets remain commodities to be traded for a price rather than placed in a communal pool to be shared by everyone.
出处
《学术月刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第3期32-38,共7页
Academic Monthly
关键词
后现代
传媒
资本主义
Post-modernity
Media and Communication
Capitalism
