Flatness: The Multi-Dimensional Interpretation Of Post-Modern Cultural Representation

"Flatness" of a postmodern culture, one of the most basic features, especially in the field of contemporary art and literature have been widely exhibited.the characteristics as a starting point of the postmodern culture, this thesis seeks to conduct a more in-depth thought summarized. "Flatness" of the concept of history of the development proposed for some traces, from the early post-modernist theorists, such as the United States, Roger Federer, Susan Sontag, Daniel·Bell, Robert·Grillet in France theories, already are involved in the " Flatness " of the concept of some of the content, while the U.S. theorist Fredric Jameson is formally proposed the concept, its meaning is:in understanding the performance of two-dimensional model form, manifested in the psychological sense of distance feel the loss, manifested in the aesthetic pleasure of aesthetic pleasure for the body, manifested in the history of ideas on the disappearance of a sense of history, manifested in the subject building for non-reason subject of the acclamation. In defining the "Flatness" of the concept, this article to discuss the flatness from the four dimensions of representation in the post-modern culture in a specific show. First discuss the flatness and emotional liberation of the relationship.Emotional and physical are the same, constitute between them and the reason is that the relationship between repression and oppression, they are suppressed because the rationalism of the discrimination between the two, which suppress the same time, the survival of modern society, people had various crisis. In response to this crisis, postmodernism cultural claims of emotional liberation, it is specifically manifested in the body of the highlights, the new sensibility of the upgrade, the generalization of aesthetic pleasure, aesthetic and artistic pursuit of desire of several aspects of all this, all Characterization of the contemporary culture of the striking features of the flatness. Second, flatness and intuitive thinking of the relationship. In-depth criticism of the Enlightenment concept of truth under a rational interpretation of the drawbacks, the post-modernist considers that the position of truth only at the surface of things, more specifically in the post-modern society, the truth that the object of an image, image, which is post-modern truth the perceptual appearance form, it is one of flatness of the cultural representation, The image to get the truth through the type of thinking is the intuitive thinking, the thinking type of reason in the post-modern society, prominent is the result of interaction between theory and reality. Third, the discussion of flatness relationship with everyday life. Return to life in the world, post-modern society, which is a new turn, that turn everyday life, it is characterized by flatness dimensions of culture, may be called the flatness of everyday life, specifically three characteristics: One is a phenomenon of everyday life of zero, this zero is the meaning of a negative. Second, the aesthetic phenomenon of everyday life, that aesthetic activity in the post-modern social life in the generalization. Third, resistance to everyday life, that life still exists the possibility of resistance to alienation. Finally, the flatness relationship with the masses identity. Development of the times determined the composition of post-modern subject is a mass group, the characteristics of their identity will need to have a flatness feature of the popular culture to reshape, and this is the elite culture can not do. Meanwhile, the masses identity also contains a ideological aspirations, particularly in the Third World masses groups, they have to guard against globalization or, more accurately, the West of homogenization on the operation of local masses, but also to identify the ideology of the elite national misleading. To four dimensions to explain the flatness of in-depth characterization of the multiple meanings contained, but the purpose of planning programs in the modern case of failure, characterized by flattening the perspective to sum up the pros and cons of postmodernism, which will immediate reflection of modernity provided a new light. This reference, I think that is the idea of intuitive thinking and rational thinking combined with the new reason. Only in this way will be incorporated into a modern reflection of the dialectical, compatible with the health of the path.As the flatness is the post-modern culture with the total nature of a representation, it is filled in philosophy, sociology, literature and art fields, then a large number of texts in literature and art must be highlighted, which can be from France, Robert·Grillet's new novel, American postmodernism poetry and contemporary Chinese new novels, post-modern style parody film production and networks to be confirmed in the text. With the trend of post-modernist culture, the gradual decline, people are actively looking for new way to solve immediate practical problems, with Jameson's words, "theory is still on the way!" The greatness of human life lies in exploring the unknown is always the possibility, let us reflect on the middle row.