全球化城市的跨界想像：從當代臺北城市書寫談起

Abstract

Appadurai (1990) 指出今天全球化文化過程的核心問題在於，一方面我們存在天涯若比鄰的幻覺，而另一方面個人之間和群體之間卻同時存在著異化的狀態與心理上的距離；也就是說，我們要理解作為全球化城市的台北其文化的核心衝突，最重要的是去探查全球化台北可能一面伴隨著各種空間跨界想像，卻一面在這些想像中存在各種畫界的衝突。 因此本研究將透過對台北城市書寫現象的觀察，以及文本作品的分析，指出全球化的情境下，正在產生台北地理空間的跨界想像；而這種跨界想像主要隱含著寰宇主義的地理空間觀，包括：台北與世界一體的鄰近感、台北在現實地緣經濟重組中，感知層面上新的都會區域想像，以及台北新的社會文化想像。文中我以三種台北城市書寫現象：「台北時尚書寫」、「台北上海愛情故事」和「移工書寫」，來分析寰宇主義跨界想像的各種型態。並指出其中如何存在各種意識形態，與階級、種族、性別的限制，進而衍生了台北新的邊界，回應Balibar「邊界搖擺」 (the vacillation of borders) 與「新邊界繁生」 (the multiplication of new borders) 的概念。另外，在研究取徑上，也希望本研究能提供未來以文學作為地理學研究一個初步的示範。

Appadurai (1990) indicates the core issue of nowadays globalized culture roots in a conflict. The fantasies of electronic propinquity, while at the same time, the alienation and psychological distance between individuals and groups. Accordingly, to realize the core conflicts of globalizing Taipei, the essential move is to explore the different cross-border imaginaries of globalizing Taipei and recognize the conflicts of different boundaries as well. This study reveals the cross-border imagination emerging with globalizing Taipei by observation of the Taipei city writing phenomenon and following the literature approach. The recognized cross-border imagination implies the spatial concepts of Cosmopolitanism: the proximity between Taipei and the world, the imagination of new metropolitan Taipei in the economical reconstruction, and the imagination of new Taipei social culture. Three categories of Taipei city writing phenomenon are reviewed by this study to analyze different types of cross-border imagination among cosmopolitanism: Taipei fashion writing, migrant worker writing, and Taipei-Shanghai romance. Responding to the vacillation of borders and the multiplication of new borders by Balibar, this study indicates how different ideologies along with constraints on class, gender, and ethnic lies in the cross-borders imagination among cosmopolitanism while forming the new borders of Taipei. Furthermore, the approach proposed by this study could be a preliminary demonstration for future literary geographic researches.