文化工业批判的再批判

文化工业理论作为法兰克福学派对大众文化生产的一种批判,它的典型语境是第二次世界大战前后的德国和美国。离开这两个典型语境,一切批判或将是无的放矢。文化工业理论对大众文化标准化和伪个性化等一系列质疑,中间或有精英主义意识作祟,但是一定程度上是在警示文化产品本能快感和艺术快感之间的分野。比较伯明翰学派的大众文化理论,用斯图亚特·霍尔的术语来看,文化工业理论应是把意义的生产定位在编码一端,反之伯明翰学派则是将之移位到了受众解码一端。文化工业理论应是低估了大众媒体受众的主体意识,虽然,判定法兰克福学派的文化工业批判理论已是明日黄花,也还为时过早。

Re-critique of the Critical Theory on Cultural Industry

As an apparently uncompromising critique of popular culture by Frankfurt School,the theory of cultural industry has two typical targets:that of Nazi Germany then conmercialized US,out of which any critique will be misleading though the standardization and pseudo-individualization,two terms Adorno posed on popular music,in a degree,could still be the milestone to identify the difference between physical pleasure and the aesthetic one.In this perspective then,a comparative study with cultural studies in Birmi...