Sunday, June 26, 2005

Baudrillard

如果說這兩年讀文化研究的最大收獲,一定不是那張沙紙(拎唔拎到都未知,v.v),而是認識了布希亞(Jean Baudrillard)這位哲學家。從借用他的「Consumer Society」與「Egoated Consumer」的理論分析Fight Club,從而認識他開始,到後來上Technoscience課,又聽過他提出的「The Gulf War never happen」,以及「越戰是從戰後一連串關於越戰的荷李活電影開始」等媒體理論。暫時來說,他是一個我最折服的學者(讀到好認同的地方時,真有看聖山、遁地鼠和The Wall那種毛管真?的「生理反應」=P),在普通的後現代與批判消費主義之外,他的厲害之處在於他開拓了一個更廣闊的理論平台,例如指出「消費主義」其實是現今的社會之下,運作及生序的脈絡,不能過份簡單地單獨抽出來批判,只會造成人格分裂(呢句我加ge),而且,他更能再退一步,指出:「The consumer’s “fixated egoism” is also the gross subconscious re-cognition of being the new exploited subject of modern times, despite all the non-sense about affluence and well-being. The fact that resistance and egoism by reinforcing constraints, only confirms that consumption is a gigantic political field, whose analysis, as well as that of production, is still to be achieved.」即是像《Fight Club》這類自省式,自覺成為消費主義的?牲者的電影的出現,正好證明了「消費」是現今社會一個「巨型的政治領域」,不能二元單一地單獨「抽佢出來打」(呢句都係我加ge,=P)。
今晚又讀到他對現代人對待動物的態度的批判,以現時的思緒,暫未能好好地用中文表達他的意思,都係quote原文好了:「Those who used to sacrifice animals did not take them for beasts. And even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished them in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are, we who are filled with horror at this practice. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them. We no longer sacrifice them, we no longer punish them, and we are proud of it, but it is simply that we have domesticated them, worse: that we have made of them a racially inferior world, no longer even worthy of our justice, but only of our affection and social charity, no longer worthy of punishment and of death, but only of experimentation and extermination like meat from the butchery.」現代人的虛偽,莫過於此。
最癲的,是他在文章末段加上一段:「One never escapes the reversion(Yahoo字典:回復、逆轉)that follows any kind of exclusion(排斥,排除在外)」「Because, if formerly the privilege of Man was founded on the monopoly of consciousness, today it is founded on the monopoly of the unconsciousness.」從相信理性與進步的現代主義,到推翻理性、進步的後現代主義,到頭來,都避不過「主義」這個詛咒,都不過是讓人類建立自己的優越感。這是我讀到的意思啦。人類的思想,到頭來都是在一個圓圈中,不斷轉呀轉,真是夠「輪迴」了。連呢句都講埋,不禁令我想起MOMO中的「對號入座」一場,最後來一個「包底」。無話可說。=P
有關布希亞的資料,可以看以下網址:
Wikipedia對Baudrillard的介紹。
Baudrillard on the Web
Baudrillard 經典研讀網站(台灣)

Monday, June 20, 2005

十年

「我已在這裡(指明周)工作了十年,如果我再不走,我怕我這一生都會在這裡待下去了。」她說。想不到星期天黃昏回公司收拾,都竟然遇到同道中人。望著大家手中的書和雜物,我們都會心微笑,對話也是這樣開始的。
她說,有一天,她忽然想起,轉眼之間,她從95年入明周到現在,已經過了10年,她亦已經30到尾,再不走,或許就會在這裡做到退休。決心就是由這一刻出現的。是時候來一個轉變。今年的九月,她會身在世界的某處讀Ph.D。「你住哪裡?我都是截的士去中環,順路的話車埋你?」對於素不相識的我,她提出這樣的邀請,我直覺她是一個很好的人。原來她住南丫島,「嘩我都好想住南丫島呀。」「咁你快?搬過來住啦,好地方。」是她對我說的最後一句話。
對像張炳玲這樣成功的一個記者來說,10年間去過台灣採訪地震災情、去過阿拉斯加30日採訪綠色和平的活動、去過薩拉熱窩、巴爾幹半島,她在明周得到的,真的不少。離開這個待了10年的地方,真的需要勇氣。我只是在想,我呢?10年後,我又會是什麼樣?會有什麼經歷?翻看家中早已購入的《人物現場》和《採訪現場》,今次讀到她在寫完波斯尼亞稿後記中的一句「做一個稱職的記者。」不管在哪裡,最少都要做到「稱職」。