大众的来临——略论现代大众及其文化消费

现代大众是都市中的平均存在或者说常人,其庞杂性和无个性的特征导致文化在现代大众那里退化成文化产业。文化产业化的显著标志是技术对艺术的根本性置换。大众的文化消费使以机械复制为特征的非韵味艺术取代了以韵味为标志的传统艺术。当今的人文知识分子应在来势汹汹的大众文化消费中保持清醒。

The Coming of the Mass——On the Modern Mass and its Cultural Consumption

The modern mass is the average existence or being in cities.Being disorderly and lacking in individuality,the modern mass has transformed culture into a cultural industry.And the noticeable characteristic of cultural industrialization is the complete replacement of artistry by techniques. The mass cultural consumption has rendered the substitution of traditional art full of aura for non-traditional art,which is characterized by mechanical replication and the loss of aura.And current humanistic intellectuals should remain sober amid the surge of the mass cultural consumption.