Whether it is the meta universe, digital art, long and short videos, artificial intelligence visualization, e-commerce, etc., it is inseparable from the design and organization of information.
information theory emerged in 1948, which was a revolutionary refresh of the common word "information". In the initial sense, in addition to information and messages, information should also have the meaning of dissemination, which should not only have the content of origin, but also have the performance of transmission and diffusion. American Engineer C. Ｅ． Shannon uses systematic, mathematical, physical and psychological methods to establish a complete set of information theory models from information source to information reception to feedback. In particular, it has a phenomenon of loss, attenuation, change and interference in information dissemination and transmission. It has left a deep impression of innovation and rational enlightenment on people through the analysis and solution of mathematics and physics.
Today, under the background of economic globalization , with the accelerated advancement of IT industry in science and technology and services, it is an indisputable fact that informatization is gradually socialized and life-oriented. If Shannon only proposed mathematical and physical methods of information collection, processing, transmission, control, allocation, feedback and systematization, and then we will continue to develop hardware and software in the IT industry - then we can only regard all this as the issue of in-depth, extensive, timely (speed), real-time (currently) real-time (currently).
This can also be seen clearly from the development chain of information such as word-of-mouth transmission, signaling, fast horse delivery, paper printing, telegraph and telephone, network communication (electronicization, digitalization): the speed of information transmission (time), the current field of information acquisition (acquisition method) and the interconnection of different social regions (there is no barrier to entry) are not the essence of the problem. What we need to pay attention to is what kind of spiritual impact this acceleration, current field and different time and space have caused to people and what changes in behavior methods, especially the reintegration of people's value system. This is a philosophical question, and from the nature of human beings, it is clear that it is an aesthetic question.
The externalization (materialization) of people's spiritual world is the second objective or second nature that exists relative to people (the origin of information). This second objective (nature) is itself an information database of historical civilization and social civilization, and has formed an unparalleled information field. Gemini, silk, paper printing, telegraph, picture photography, audio and entertainment, etc. are just a problem of information carriers and storage methods. However, once the optical cable, terminal and electronic, digital carriers and transmission and reception are set, the collection and recording, transmission and dissemination, feedback, and change control of information will undergo qualitative changes - this is a fundamental change in speed, exchange and interaction, and symcyclical history. The spiritual reality and its results formed here are compared with the objective world (physical biological world) and the spiritual world (objectification of humans), which can be called the third objective or third natural information world.
This should be the extension and re-determination of the three world theories of British philosopher Popper . The author's reasons are as follows: 1. In the coordinate system composed of natural history and social history, the two fundamental conditions for human survival are: one is the objective material world independent of human beings, and the other is the objectized existence of the material and spiritual production of human beings that are in accordance with regular and purposeful, that is, the spiritual world that contains the result of exchange between human beings and matters. The former does not exist based on whether a person exists or not, and has absoluteness and uniqueness. The latter covers the changes in people's material world and the continuous understanding and summary of their own spirit itself. It is a relative, externalized existence of human spiritual value.
The latter existence (Tao and Tool) is difficult to include the "spiritual reality of information" under the conditions of the information society. This is because modern information transmission can not only be shared at any time, anywhere, and at the same time, but also the information itself can also be intervened by multiple parties, exchange and interaction, and can be in the dynamic change of circulation reversal. In theory, it can be a result of information without static and termination. 2. As a complex of matter and spirit, people are both objective and subjective, both material and spiritual. For the internal circulation of the individual itself (just the internal circulation), there is a material flow, energy flow, and naturally and objectively, and there is an information flow in society and spirit. The information world we recognize here should not include this internal circulation to people themselves, but the object of understanding refers to the externalized and external spiritual reality, which is the flow of information in people's external circulation.
Because only in this way can the socialization and lifeization of informationization have a foundation, which is a very critical fundamental issue. From this point of view, the information world should be an objective or natural. 3. The information world has the important characteristics of "hyperlink". In the development of modern science and technology, people can exchange information together and interact and change control at the same time without barriers to entry, and at the same time, they can exchange information on two issues (themes) or above. People are not only objective people and spiritual people, but also become information people. Obviously, the emergence and development of information technology are changing the correspondence between people's society, time and space, and the concept of time and space between people.
In fact, the author believes that from objective persons (biological persons) → spiritual persons (social persons) → information persons (technical persons) → ecological persons (future persons) should be a chain of advancement for people to understand the development of people themselves from a philosophical perspective in the historical development of the world. The emergence of information philosophy should be an objective thing. If we use the laws of material and spiritual production in society, the development of human thinking and the formation of truth, goodness and beauty, these meta-discourses or "grand narratives" to correspond, compare and combine with the socialized and life-oriented real existence of information, it would be natural to propose information aesthetics.
So, how to determine the inherent meaning of information aesthetics and what is its specific definition? The author believes that information aesthetics should be a view of the beauty of the various practical activities of the information society under the conditions of the development of modern information technology, and in the process of gradual socialization and lifeization of informatization, mainly under the conditions of informatization, the beauty of human objectification and active activities themselves. Historically, it integrates philosophical and aesthetic concepts such as beauty is relationship ( Diderot ), beauty is life (Chernishevsky), and beauty in dialogue ( Bakhtin ). In a narrow sense, it is to understand truth, goodness and beauty in a regular and purposeful manner in the information society. Regarding the preliminary definition of information aesthetics and a certain explanation of its characteristics, the author has the following understanding and understanding:
First, the essence of information is the interoperability of content, the information concept in the development of modern information technology, and the exchange and interaction of information, the co-existence of information modification and the inexhaustible nature of information text construction. At the same time, the systematization of information, the integrity of control theory, and the anti-interference of content are also determining the origin of information in circulation. Beauty in relation is the essence of beauty that is expressed in the one-way, two-way or multi-directional connection pull of subjective, subjective to objective, and objective, and it cannot be produced without relational beauty. Such aesthetic concepts actually have the prototype of the essence of information aesthetic theory. We know that the existence of information is the existence of relationships. In a nutshell, there is no way to talk about information without relationships (as mentioned above, the information flow in the internal circulation of human beings is just the other side of the problem).
contemporary information relationship is established and carried out under the influence of optical cables, servers and networks, on a technological platform that matches and combines software and hardware of microcomputers (also including other terminal devices). It is the beauty and beauty that exists in practical activities that are synchronous, exchanged and interact, and text construction that are not fully fulfilled. Here, this existence of beauty and beauty refers specifically to the kind of diachronicity that is not exhausted in the construction of information text dynamics, and has no limit on synchronicity. It is constantly involved in, modified, subverted, resolved (structured) and even alienated in flowing feedback, showing the truth, goodness and beauty of people's spiritual activities collide, intervene, differentiate and integrate into return. At the same time, it is worth noting that the existence of beauty and beauty in the information relationship is always divergent in its relationship with time and space, and always a progressive and irreversible continuation. Information beauty, of course, also has a static establishment of regional (classical), phased or instantaneous nature, but it is fundamentally a spiritual existence where dynamic relationships occur and are constantly being changed.
Second, the current interpretation of dialogueism, comprehensive and specific practice, and its social and human culture are the life basis of information aesthetics. Bakhtin's dialogue philosophy and aesthetic thoughts that were formed in the 1920s and 1930s undoubtedly provide a huge theoretical support and a secret tool for cracking for the information society. The explanation of the existence of human beings (mainly paper text) and the author of the work (mainly paper text) and the protagonist of the work, and the explanation of the dialogue thought that "I exist in the form of others, or others exist in my form" ("Bachtin's Complete Works" Volume 5, page 388) is really a theoretical essence that reveals various material and spiritual relationships among people. Information aesthetics is generated in the relationship between "information people". The existence of "you", "me" and "he" must exist as the existence of another "you", "me", "he" (or multiple). Only in the exchange and interaction of the network (also a dialogue) can the existence of "you", "me" and "he" be determined. This is the key to the problem. The existence of
people is the existence of multiple "polyphonic" and the existence of "dialogue" that interacts with multiple bits and multiple points. It is the existence of corresponding communication of "transcendent space" without being restricted by specific time and space. It is the existence of mutual contact (acceptance), cross, inclusiveness, and cover forms and forms. Information aesthetics should be the concrete and realistic application of dialogueism in the information society, and it realizes the co-existence and online presence of time and space relationships between people, so as to obtain comprehensive and in-depth practice of socialization and lifeization.
Third. The theoretical narrative of hyperlanguage and the real existence of hypertext constitute the basis for the existence of the aesthetic object of information aesthetics. The mobile interaction of network information must not only have the existence of both parties or multiple parties in dialogue, but also a synchronic and online presence. This has achieved quite sufficient information interaction in terms of diachronicity and synchronicity, and has been continuously unified. Hypertext is a multi-directional narrative formed by random links, a multi-directional interactive multi-party text narrative, which can produce different text objects and text interpretations; while collages and role-playing (RPG) appearing on the basis of hypertext and hyperlinks, in the former, use the relativity between the reference and the signifier, extract the narrative style and language characteristics of a certain (some) text to match the content, events and characters with another (other) narrative, and render postmodernism Aesthetics and keen on irony, while the latter is a text that presets the identity of the character in the text, and is also constructed by (or by) the guide of the text author and is completed by multiple parties, forming a platform for text authors to set up a platform for text authors, and the "live drama" of online text texts that are played by the character "actor" themselves; for example, the recent popular blog writing has become a dialogue interaction and multi-party information exchange that must have between the writing individuals and other individuals in the state of survival of the Internet, and so on.
needs to be clear that the aesthetic object of information aesthetics, compared with the current social civilization development conditions, does not refer to the general activities of people's material and spiritual production, nor does it mean those specific traditional cultural and artistic forms, but rather texts that match and combine with information generation, network transmission and terminal display under the development conditions of information technology (especially network technology and services). This kind of text exists, which can be a web-based text, flat images, dynamic images, audio and music, etc., or can be created online, which has the characteristics of network text but is essentially paper-based text, but the main and basic are electronic text narratives that are only performed between the network and the terminal, are present online, are timely and continuously exchanged and interacted with changes and are involved in the change.
Fourth, beauty is the aesthetic conclusion of life, which may have more multiple meanings in the current real practice of the information society. Information aesthetics has the important characteristics of beauty as life, which is the substantive nature of people. The development index of the information society is the degree of intervention of information technology and information networks on people's material and spiritual activities. Specifically, it can also be the breadth and depth of intervention in people's social life (daily life).
e-government, home office (SOHO), e-commerce, email, online chat, online games, multi-point video, online consumption and digital TV in the terminal market, and TV set-top box , etc. are all portrayals of information-based socialization and life-oriented information. The spiritual beauty expressed by this information life does have the unique value and significance of aesthetic differences: the gradual dailyization of social life in the mainstream, that is, people's social activities are not defined in work, social and leisure, but a daily life situation that mixes work and leisure, various labor social interactions and family (personal) daily life. Life fun and spiritual pleasure have become the main manifestations and subject content of human life; the infinite divergence and reception in information network space and the online consensus on time can not only make people become individual "information people", but more importantly, the "little world" with the country as its neighbor. It can be said that it stimulates people's desire for life with the strangeness, freshness and virtuality in interpersonal relationships and interactions, and constantly brings the beauty of life from ignorance to mutual understanding and then to interactive interaction.
information society has opened a new page in people's social life - the beauty of life has never shown such a huge attraction and the desire to seek knowledge that continues to arouse (but there are also the opposite side of things, namely the indulgence of online games, the congestion of information garbage on network terminals, social crimes committed using the Internet, etc.).
Fifth, the social ethical essence of information aesthetics is to change or even subvert the historical construction of traditional material and spiritual activities and specific artistic forms in the creation of discourse power. It realizes the flat interpersonal online interaction that everyone is equal, it is an unprecedented replacement of "civilian power" under information conditions, and it is an unprecedented eruption, expansion and delivery of civilian consciousness. The flow and interaction activities of the information network, whether it is entering and exiting, present and offline, participation and concealment, virtual and insidious, etc., are all without thresholds, barriers, and no restrictions. It is difficult to generate or difficult to exist a three-dimensional voice-based right construction system. In terms of information flow, the flow of information from high-end to low-end, from strong to weak will also turn into scattered, flat, and multi-directional information exchange in the online world. The entry and exit of any person in society, etc. are only between instant clicks.
It should be said that this freedom and the fraternity and convergence that arouses from this naturally constitutes the social ethical basis of information aesthetics.Based on this, the author has to have such a cognition: the three forms of "cultural capital" that Bourdieu believes (i.e. "physical", "objective" and "institutional") of "budieu" may fall apart without human transfer in the near future, especially the power position of "physical" (spiritual internalization) and "institutional" (educational program) on the individual subject (or multiple individual subjects) of a person will be threatened with unprecedented subversion, such as those from high-end, strong, Starting from the information position of copyright, words and deeds that try to flow information in one-way (electronic text narratives, etc.) will no longer be valued or even difficult to be paid attention to. The situation of the reciprocity of discourse power and spirit controlled by one individual subject or multiple individual subjects will involuntarily be submerged in the online ocean of the information world, no longer with the "body" copyright mark, and may only become the mainstream, trend, flow, fashion, will, desires, ideas, etc. of Internet survival.
The author believes that the proposal of information aesthetics is not only the future of society, but also realistic and practical, and has become both spiritual and theoretical. This is just like our future philosophical understanding and aesthetic judgment, ecological philosophy and ecological aesthetics are likely to appear. They are just a result of the objective laws of the development of social civilization, and are a rational interpretation and induction of subjective and objective unity.
