认知图绘与后现代的历险

文艺理论研究 ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 73-90.

认知图绘与后现代的历险

道格拉斯·凯尔纳

洛杉矶加州大学

出版日期:2014-06-25 发布日期:2014-07-06
作者简介:道格拉斯·凯尔纳，批判理论家，洛杉矶加州大学杰出教授，教育哲学系主任，著作等身，其中出版于1990年代的《后现代转向》和《后现代理论：批判性质疑》被翻译介绍为中文，在我国学界产生较大影响。他最近的著作包括《汉子与枪械杀人狂》（2008年美国教育研究协会最佳教育图书奖），《电影战争》（2010年）以及《媒体景观与2011年起义》（2012年）。他的个人网页网址：http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/

Cognitive Mapping and the Adventures of the Postmodern

Douglas Kellner

UCLA

Online:2014-06-25 Published:2014-07-06
About author:Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education and Distinguished Professor at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture. His most recent publications include Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombings to the Virginia Tech Massacre (2008 AESA award as the best book on education), Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era (2010), and Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere! (2012). Kellner's website is at http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 上世纪八、九十年代有关现代与后现代的争论，涉及它们之间的差异，是否不同的历史时期，在艺术上的分野有何表现。现代与后现代理论界定了像大学这样的西方知识空间中的关键理论问题。杰姆逊便是有关后现代争论的一个始作俑者，他引入认知图绘这一概念对当下时刻进行理论描述。本文将讨论这一争论中的理论与图绘概念，并试图厘清后现代话语的适当使用，当代理论中后现代转向的有用性，以及对这一话语的滥用。首先，本文提出，在更广泛的议题下对现代与后现代加以区分可以凸显当下时刻中的种种新鲜事物并强化与过去的断裂，然而现代与后现代的这一区分必须明确地解释清楚。本文认为后现代话语能为当前社会、文化与理论中的主要新鲜事物与发展提供理论图绘和社会叙述，并能清楚说明当代时刻与过去的承继与断裂。最后，本文还认为现代与后现代话语的多元性有助于说明当前时刻的复杂性，而我们可以运用的理论越有力，我们的理论与批评就能做得越好。

关键词: 后现代, 认知图绘, 杰姆逊, 鲍德里亚, 当代时刻

Abstract: During the 1980s and 1990s, debates about the differences between modernity and postmodernity as historical epochs; modernism and postmodernism in the arts; and wars between modern and postmodern theory defined key theoretical problematics in intellectualized spaces of the West, like the University. Fredric Jameson was one of the initiators of debates over the postmodern, and introduced the concept of cognitive mapping to describe theoretical accounts of the contemporary moment. I discuss conceptions of theory and mapping in the modern and postmodern debates and sort out appropriate uses of the discourse of the postmodern, and the usefulness of the postmodern turn in contemporary theory, as well as some abuses of the discourse. I first suggest that distinctions between the modern and the postmodern in a wide range of issues can highlight novelties in the contemporary moment and discontinuities with the past, but that the distinction in question between the modern and the postmodern must be clearly explicated and the differences articulated. I argue that postmodern discourses help provide theoretical mappings and social narratives of the major novelties and developments in contemporary society, culture, and theory and can articulate continuities and discontinuities with the past in the present moment. Finally, I’ll argue that a multiplicity of modern and postmodern discourses helps illuminate and articulate the complexity of the present moment and that the more strong theories we have at our disposal, the better work we can do as theorists and critics.

Key words: postmodern, cognitive mapping, Jameson, Baudrillard, contemporary moment

道格拉斯·凯尔纳. 认知图绘与后现代的历险[J]. 文艺理论研究, 2014, 34(3): 73-90.

Douglas Kellner. Cognitive Mapping and the Adventures of the Postmodern[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(3): 73-90.

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