期刊刊名：環境與藝術學刊 　 卷期：5期

篇名出版日期：2007年6月1日

作者：郭建慧

語言：English

關鍵字：nostalgia, simulation, simulacra, hyperreal

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摘要：
This paper develops a new understanding of the relationship between architecture and cultural identity that is often elaborated on the basis of the grand narrative of history. While nostalgic sentiment has come into being, there are certain attempts, theories and practices of reviving our historical past. Likewise, Taiwanese architects and theorists often stress the importance of integrating historical elements of a city or building into new architectural design as a way of generating a city’s totality and a cure for sustaining or restoring collective memory as if our sense of history is universally and objectively determined.Nevertheless, when history is considered as a re-constructive product of power/knowledge exercises, its unchangeable nature is untenable. Fredric Jameson has implied that the political might be more privileged than the historical. While history serves as a prior source of governing cultural patterns and making cultural artefacts, we shall not omit the political implication that history serves as a mechanism of producing knowledge and shaping cultural identity. In no sense can history be more “autonomic” and “privileged” than other political apparatuses that also have effects on our cultural identity and its representation.As poststructuralist historicism argues, the past can never have the capacity to reveal itself again, or repeat the primitive originality of itself, to the present world. Instead, the past is endlessly deferred in images that are deployed to amount to the same thing. History has lost its meaning and been mutated into a pure object. Those signs or images about the past are not the historical, but the simulative, simulacra as Jean Baudrillard claims. Taiwanese architecture appears to anticipate a return to tradition, to generate an atmosphere of the historical, but in reality is trapped in symbolic exoticism. Such a nostalgic symbolism is not dominated by the logic of representation but by the logic of simulation. It bears no relation to any reality. It is its own pure simulacrum, and has turned itself into a hyperreal world, as an alternative world, that effectively seduces the subjects into an illusive nostalgic sentiment.

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