Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
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引言：文化拓扑的形成
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2012
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Tiziana Terranova
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Celia Lury;L. Parisi;Tiziana Terranova
在社会和文化理论中，拓扑学被用来表达权力结构和空间的变化。在这个介绍中，我们认为，文化本身正在成为拓扑。特别是，这种“变得拓扑”可以确定在一个新的时空连续性的经济，政治和文化生活的形式今天的意义。这种排序出现在排序、命名、编号、比较、列表和计算的实践中，有时没有明确的协调。我们表明，这些做法的效果是引入新的连续性到一个不连续的世界，通过建立等价或相似，并通过反复对比，使和标记不连续。在这种关系的增殖中，拓扑变化被确定为是恒定的、正常的和不可改变的，而不是外部产生的例外形式;也就是说，经济、政治和文化生活的形式被确定并根据其持续变化的能力变得清晰。引言概述了对这一特刊的贡献，讨论了拓扑文化的含义，并提供了一个分析框架，通过它来理解其含义。
In social and cultural theory, topology has been used to articulate changes in structures and spaces of power. In this introduction, we argue that culture itself is becoming topological. In particular, this ‘becoming topological’ can be identified in the significance of a new order of spatio-temporal continuity for forms of economic, political and cultural life today. This ordering emerges, sometimes without explicit coordination, in practices of sorting, naming, numbering, comparing, listing, and calculating. We show that the effect of these practices is both to introduce new continuities into a discontinuous world by establishing equivalences or similitudes, and to make and mark discontinuities through repeated contrasts. In this multiplication of relations, topological change is established as being constant, normal and immanent, rather than being an exceptional form, which is externally produced; that is, forms of economic, political and cultural life are identified and made legible in terms of their capacities for continuous change. Outlining the contributions to this Special Issue, the introduction discusses the meaning of topological culture and provides an analytic framework through which to understand its implications.