Editorial: Global collapse and cultural possibility
Editorial: Global collapse and cultural possibility
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社论：全球崩溃与文化可能性
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2009
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通讯作者：
C. Greer
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J. Ferrell;C. Greer
这第五卷的CMC是沿着在一个特别不稳定的时间在全球历史上。当前的全球资本主义危机当然也是一场人类意义和可持续性的危机;比市场更重要的是，总是。随着全球资本主义在其积累的矛盾的重压下步履维艰，人类生活的其他方面也在动摇：地方文化、家庭安排、移民机会，甚至日常生计的提供。即使马克思和默顿只说对了一半，这些震动也会扰乱社会秩序，给合法的成就带来新的压力，社会阶层之间产生新的紧张关系，感受到剥夺和物质匮乏的新体验，从而产生新的犯罪和掠夺。将所有这些与全球媒体领域--与混淆原因和后果、图像及其影响的现场点播媒体景观--混合在一起，很容易想象未来可能会发生的疯狂。然而，混乱的社会秩序也会动摇新的希望和可能性。正如最近的美国总统大选所示，一场适时的社会危机可以帮助产生几十年前甚至几天前无法想象的结果。媒体对日常生活的渗透可以将进步抵抗的每一个时刻都转化为电视商品;但是，拥有摄像机和移动的电话的公民也可以发明一种即时通信，使有意义的政治抵抗成为一种可行的选择。一个商品消费不再内斯日常生活的世界可能会在公民获得的自我意识中造成一个漏洞，但在那个世界中出现的可能性也可能开始填补这个漏洞，也许是一种新的经济和文化自给自足。现在不是绝望的时候，也不是从批判性的、涉及文化的分析任务中退缩的时候。危险的时代至少需要一点理智的勇气。正是在这种文化背景下，本着这种精神，我们进入了CMC探索媒体，犯罪，文化和政治的第五年。媒体和政治，当然，几十年来是不可分割的;然而，随着2008年美国总统大选，使用新的和替代媒体作为政治竞选工具被带到了一个新的水平。清楚地认识到“传统”或“常规”媒体形式-印刷和广播新闻，广告牌和电视广告-不再足以吸引注意力，
This fi fth volume of CMC comes along at a particularly precarious time in global history. The current crisis of global capitalism is of course a crisis of human meaning and sustainability as well; more is at stake, always, than markets. As global capitalism shudders under the weight of its accumulated contradictions, other dimensions of human life are shaken as well: local cultures, familial arrangements, immigrant opportunities, even the provision of daily sustenance. And if Marx and Merton were even half right, these tremors will rattle the social order in ways that produce new strains on legitimate achievement, new tensions between social classes, new experiences of perceived deprivation and material want, and so new sorts of crime and predation. Mix all this with the global mediasphere ‐ with a live-on-demand mediascape that confounds causes and consequences, images and their effects ‐ and it’s easy to imagine the madness that may lie ahead. Yet a shuddering social order can shake loose new hopes and possibilities as well. As seen in the recent US presidential election, a well-timed social crisis can help produce results unimaginable decades before, perhaps even days before. The media saturation of daily life can convert every moment of progressive resistance into a made-fortelevision commodity; but a citizenry armed with video cameras and mobile phones can also invent the sort of instantaneous communication that makes meaningful political resistance a viable alternative. A world where commodity consumption no longer defi nes everyday life can punch a hole in citizens’ acquired sense of self, but the possibilities emergent in that world can also begin to fi that hole, perhaps, with a new sort of economic and cultural self-suffi ciency. Now is no time for despair, or for drawing back from the task of critical, culturally engaged analysis. Dangerous times demand at least a modicum of intellectual courage. It is in this cultural context, and in this spirit, that we move into CMC’s fi fth year of exploring media, crime, culture, and politics. Media and politics have, of course, for decades been inseparable; yet with the 2008 US presidential election the use of new and alternative media as tools for political campaigning was taken to a new level. Clearly understanding that ‘traditional’ or ‘conventional’ media forms ‐ print and broadcast news, billboard and television advertising ‐ no longer suffi ce to capture the attention,