【学院系列讲座】中产阶级审美幻象与全球化阶级冲突

学院系列讲座：文学、文化和社会

School Seminar Series: Literature, Culture and Society

Topic: 中产阶级审美幻象与全球化阶级冲突 Middle Class Fantasy as the Metonymy of Global Class Conflicts

Speaker: 周小仪教授（北京外国语大学）

Language：Chinese

Time: 10:30AM, Monday, May 30, 2016

Venue: Room 403, School of Foreign Languages Building, South Campus, Sun Yat-sen University

Organizer: School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University

论文提要：

目前我国流行的中产阶级审美品味和生活方式构成了一种特别的生活艺术化境界，一个拉康式的幻象空间。这一具有审美特征的社会空间不仅使中产阶级个人作为主体得以构建，而且更重要的是，它彻底压抑了那个在经典马克思主义理论中至关重要的、不可调和的阶级对抗。这一中产阶级幻象，用巴里巴尔和马舍雷的术语说，是对阶级矛盾的“想象性解决”。它遮蔽、抚平了阶级冲突或拉康所谓“实在界”的入侵，从而编织出一幅中产阶级生活的“温情脉脉的面纱”，并成为一个普世的、超族群、超阶级并吸引劳动者的梦想。由于全球化和当代资本的超时空运作，它实际是一种使金融资本的暴力得以柔性化的美学修辞。从理论上说，中产阶级并非实体，而是以幻象为表现形式的资本扩张的转喻。

Abstract: This paper explores the middle class lifestyle and its aesthetic representation in China as a Lacanian fantasy. This is an artistic socio-psychological space in which middle class subjectivity is constructed. As a consequence, the Marxist concept of contradiction between the upper and lower classes is totally ignored and fully repressed. Therefore this middle class fantasy could be considered, in Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey’s jargon, an “imaginary solution” to social conflicts. It interrupts the invasion of the Lacanian “Real”, and veils the trauma in reality with an aesthetic mask. In the ages of globalization, this middle class fantasy as the universal living standard goes beyond the boundary of classes and nations, and is becoming increasingly popular in China. It could be arguably said that middle class aestheticism is no more than the rhetoric of the expansion of financial capital or, in a certain sense, simply a metonymy of the repressed global class struggle. 

学院系列讲座：文学、文化和社会”（School Seminar Series: Literature, Culture and Society）由外院几位文学方 向的老师共同创建，以跨学科和交叉学科讨论会的形式，建立教师交流、讨论及合作的平台，希望以此活跃并加强学院的文学研究气氛。活动每 月举办1-2次，讲座由40-60分钟的论文发言与30分钟的讨论组成。

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