后现代身体的分裂与聚合 ――基于政治仪式中身体规训技术的分析

后现代情境中身体的分裂趋向,直接阻碍了个体迈向政治共识的道路,间接威胁到政治权力系统的稳定和民族国家政治文化的持存。政治仪式作为一种特殊的政治行为系统,借助连续性身体规训技术和稳定性社会规训技术,一方面,发挥传统的政治功能,由外而内地对分裂的身体施加一种强制性的聚合力; 另一方面,为适应后现代社会而积极转变,通过唤起个体公民对其身份中蕴含着的政治权利和政治责任的重视,由内而外地产生出一种主动性的聚合力。
In the postmodern context, the tendency of the fission of the postmodern body directly prevents individuals from reaching political consensus and indirectly undermines the stability of the political power system and the existence of the political culture of nation-states. As a kind of special system of political behavior, the political ritual has two such functions as a continuous physical discipline technique and a stable physical discipline technique. The former function is traditional in that it works externally and forces the split body to combine together; the other is postmodern in the sense that it works internally, enabling the individual citizens to unite together actively by raising their awareness of their innate political rights and duties