就在我试着书写这篇编序的同一个晚上,手机新闻推送又带来了美国大选或可重新计票的消息。似乎再也没有什么新闻值得“更加令人惊讶”了,——真实或者虚假,无非给这个已经足够荒诞的世界又增加了一重恶作剧式的砝码。我们该听信什么?支持谁?还有什么标准是可以依存的?一切坚固的东西早就已经烟消云散。DADA,一个无畏的音节,一个跨越语言界限的词汇,一个中空的定义,一个不可能被翻译的宣言,一个没有面孔的图像,一个历史的偶然,一个 Just the same night I tried to write this preface, cellphone news feeds brought news of the U.S. election or recount. No news seems to be worth any more “more surprising”, or - real or fake - adds a prank-prank-like weight to this already absurd world. What should we listen to? Who are we to support? What standards can be relied on? All solid things have already vanished. DADA, a dauntless syllable, a vocabulary that spans linguistic boundaries, a hollow definition, a declaration that can not be translated, a faceless image, a historical accident, a