窥探欲望互联网:中国网络空间的色情文化变迁史

本文通过对色情网络公共话语实践的分析,检视了中国网络色情文化的变迁史,描摹了作为当代社会意识形态重要症候的色情文化,如何参与到中国政治、经济、文化的社会整体性变迁之中。“色情”在互联网的话语建构中,是信息自由流动、绝对自由市场的象征,是分享文化、兄弟情谊的载体,是被征用成为政治反对的话语工具、互联网新经济发展的欲望引擎,也是形塑支配性男性气质的文化力量。以高知青年男性为代表的新中间阶层既在掌握数字技术的过程中培育了群体意识与媒介表达能力,成为了网络集体行动的重要力量;也沉浸在“信息自由流动”的赛博迷思之中,试图接管文化生产与阐释权的同时摒弃了性别平等的文化政治安排。当被新经济所征用的软色情消费文化蔓延之时、“性别战争”泛起之刻、“裸贷”激发剧烈争议之际,中国社会亟需新的文化政治以促成新的社会共识。

Exploring the Internet of Desire: the evolution of porn cultures in Chinese cyberspace

Porn culture is an important but rarely studied part of subculture that goes hand in hand with the development of the Internet worldwide.And China is no exception.In this paper,the authors try to analyze how porn culture,a symptom of the dominant ideology of today,evolves interactively with the political,economic and cultural transformations of China.In the rhetorical construction of the Internet discourses,porn culture represents a lot in different times,such as free?ow of information,symbol of free market,carrier of sharing culture and brotherhood.It is mobilized as cultural tool of political resistance,the driving force behind the development of the Internet new economy,and cultural force that shape hegemonic masculinity.The new middle class,in this case mostly composed of well-educated young male Internet users,cultivates group consciousness and communication capacity during the process of grasping digital technology.They become one of the important forces behind online collective actions of all sorts in contemporary China.At the same time,however,they are deeply immersed in the cybermyth of free?ow of information,and discard the socialist tradition of gender equality in the process of taking control of cultural production and interpretations.When soft porn culture spreads alongside the new economy,“gender war”and other social consequences also call for more critical attention,and the Chinese society is in need of a new cultural politics to form new consensus.