大众文化兴起后,艺术的表现由形而上的价值向个体的经验转移,由思想逐渐向感官的倾斜,意义价值不断被搁置,接受大量外界信息的视觉感官成为大众文化寄寓的重镇。摄影、电影、电视及晚近的网络通过机械、电子等科学技术将人类的视觉延伸至更为宽广的时空领域中,产生了“震惊”(本雅明语) After the rise of mass culture, the performance of art has shifted from metaphysical value to individual experience, gradually shifting its mind to the senses, the value of meaning has been shelved, and the visual senses, which have received a great deal of outside information, have become the center of popular culture. Photography, movies, television, and more recently, have “shocked” (Benjamin) by extending human vision to a broader space-time field through science and technology such as mechanics and electronics.