从政治实践话语到文化阐释策略-以詹姆逊对毛泽东思想的美学挪用为例

After the Western left-wing movement suffered setbacks in reality, its practice experience has been transformed into a method of textual interpretation. However, there are very limited studies to question how the failure of such political practice is reborn in a new discourse. This paper tries to explain its process through the case of Jameson's transformation of Mao Zedong thought into aesthetic. The transformation finds its expression in three aspects: 1) theory travel - variation occurs as the text travels; 2) the impact of the practice - deviance happens when the text is decontextualized; and 3) the transformative borrowing - the signifier is preserved and the signified modified. In Jameson's view, Mao Zedong thought and practice is a point of departure for theoretical reflections in this regard, thus becoming an idealized “other”.