In this brief intervention the contributor makes the case that our preoccupation with media and cultural analysis has alienated/detached us, as scholars of media and cultural studies, from a key experiential moment: a philosophical pre-moment. In a world of chronic crises (economic, ideological, ecological), we have forgotten what it means to encounter suffering through the face of the sufferer. We seek refuge in Plato’s cave again – not because of inability to tell the real from ­shadowy reflections, but because the reflections (as mediatised experience) offer us ­refuge, comfort and distanciation. Our forgetfulness of suffering and the face of the sufferer have immersed us deep into a kind of ‘sequestration’ where language (academic language/language games/turf wars) take precedence over experiencing a world in crisis. Heidegger was wrong: we have not forgotten about being-in-the-world, we have remorselessly turned philosophy on its head – philosophy has itself become a tool of sequestration – a shelter from the face of the sufferer.

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中介化，痛苦与哲学之死

在这一简短的干预中，贡献者证明了我们对媒体和文化分析的关注已使我们，作为媒体和文化研究的学者，从一个关键的经验时刻疏远/脱离了我们：哲学的预言。在一个长期危机（经济，意识形态，生态危机）的世界中，我们已经忘记了面对受害者面对痛苦的意义。我们再次在柏拉图的洞穴中寻求庇护–并不是因为无法从阴影反射中分辨出真实，而是因为这些反射（作为中介经验）为我们提供了庇护，舒适和脱节。我们对苦难的健忘和受难者的面容使我们陷入了一种“隔离”，在这种隔离中，语言（学术语言/语言游戏/草皮战争）优先于经历危机的世界。海德格尔错了：