影像时代的诞生正是顺应了当代人们较为现实的社会文化心理特征,影像与仿真的世界已经成为生活中的一部分,并且深深地渗透到我们的文化逻辑中。就像通俗剧的出现是一种文化现象,它所引起的文化观念的争论常常被引用经济学的见解来印证。现在讨论艺术生产(而非艺术创作)就与大谈商品生产一样“合法”,再也没有什么扭捏之感,艺术的商品属性是那么的显露无疑和无可争辩,就如同上个世纪九十年代通俗剧 It is the birth of the image age that conforms to the more realistic social and cultural psychology of contemporary people. The world of image and simulation has become a part of life and permeated deeply into our cultural logic. Just as the appearance of popular plays is a cultural phenomenon, the controversy over cultural ideas it causes is often corroborated by the insights of economics. It is no doubt that the discussion of art production (not art creation) is just as “legitimate” as the talk of commodity production, with no sense of tweaking any more, and the obvious appearance of art’s merchandise is undoubtedly the same as that of the 1990s The era of popular drama