Curiosity or Contempt: On Spectacle, the Human, and Activism
Curiosity or Contempt: On Spectacle, the Human, and Activism
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好奇还是蔑视：论奇观、人性和行动主义
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2003
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B. Kershaw
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作者：
B. Kershaw
20世纪后期的人类越来越多地受到景观社会的影响，因为它被纳入了表演社会。这一过程推进了景观的本质，使其成为新兴的全球感官的主要组成部分。景观的演变可以通过历史上不同景观之间的比较来理解，也可以通过研究为什么戏剧理论诋毁景观，以及为什么合法的戏剧旨在驯服它来理解。反过来，这表明了奇观参与当代世界权力循环的新方式，并表明迫切需要修正作为普通人类可能意味着什么的概念。分析当代表演中的解构主义景观对这项任务尤其有用。因为景观已经成为文化演变的主要力量，它作为一种可以实现进步变革的手段，与活动家有着特殊的相关性。
Human beings in the late twentieth century were increasingly shaped by the society of the spectacle as it was incorporated into the performative society. This process advanced the nature of spectacle as a major component in an emergent global sensorium. This evolution of spectacle can be understood through comparisons between spectacles in history, and through study of why dramatic theory has denigrated spectacle and why legitimate theatre has aimed to tame it. In turn, this indicates new ways in which spectacle participates in the circulation of power in the contemporary world and suggests an urgent need to revise conceptions of what it might mean to be commonly human. Analysis of spectacles of deconstruction in contemporary performance is especially useful for this task. Because spectacle has become a major force in cultural evolution it has special relevance to activists as a means whereby progressive change can be achieved.