consumer is actively “self-making” his or her personality (168–69). In this engaging rereading of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde is not critical of mass-produced art such as books, plays, and mechanical reprints of paintings; rather, he suggests how they spread art to a wider audience. According to Zieger, it is not until Dorian forsakes bourgeois, mass-produced art forms in favor of outdated, aristocratic models that he meets his downfall. Finally, Zieger’s coda draws more explicit associations between nineteenth-century media consumption and current technological habits. For example, she compares nineteenth-century advice columns to Google searches, salacious cigarette cards to internet porn, and Dorian Gray’s obsessive rebinding of Lord Henry’s book to colorful phone covers. More specifically, the coda reiterates her argument that, in the nineteenth century and today, mass media irrecoverably infiltrates our lives at the most intimate level, creating a need for ever more exposure to it. “Since complete disconnection from the information economy would lead to economic dysfunction and social isolation,” she notes, “the constant compulsion to check updated information becomes a chronic condition to be managed,” eliciting affective responses to the media itself (210). Rather than creating mindless consumers, these affective responses link consumers to larger discourses about technology, knowledge, and the circulation of both.

中文翻译：

---

Koenraad Claes 的维多利亚晚期小杂志

消费者正在积极地“自我塑造”他或她的个性 (168-69)。在这部引人入胜的重读《多里安·格雷的画像》中，王尔德并不批评大量生产的艺术，例如书籍、戏剧和绘画的机械重印；相反，他建议他们如何将艺术传播给更广泛的观众。根据齐格的说法，直到多里安放弃资产阶级的、大规模生产的艺术形式，转而支持过时的贵族模式，他才遭遇了垮台。最后，齐格的结尾在 19 世纪的媒体消费和当前的技术习惯之间建立了更明确的联系。例如，她将 19 世纪的建议专栏比作谷歌搜索，将淫秽的香烟卡比作网络色情，以及多里安·格雷将亨利勋爵的书重新装订成彩色手机壳的痴迷。更具体地说，尾声重申了她的论点，即，在 19 世纪和今天，大众媒体无可挽回地以最私密的方式渗透到我们的生活中，从而产生了更多接触它的需求。“由于与信息经济完全脱节会导致经济功能障碍和社会孤立，”她指出，“不断强迫检查更新信息成为一种需要管理的慢性病，​​”引发对媒体本身的情感反应 (210)。这些情感反应不是创造无意识的消费者，而是将消费者与关于技术、知识和两者流通的更大话语联系起来。“由于与信息经济完全脱节会导致经济功能障碍和社会孤立，”她指出，“不断强迫检查更新信息成为一种需要管理的慢性病，​​”引发对媒体本身的情感反应 (210)。这些情感反应不是创造无意识的消费者，而是将消费者与关于技术、知识和两者流通的更大话语联系起来。“由于与信息经济完全脱节会导致经济功能障碍和社会孤立，”她指出，“不断强迫检查更新信息成为一种需要管理的慢性病，​​”引发对媒体本身的情感反应 (210)。这些情感反应不是创造无意识的消费者，而是将消费者与关于技术、知识和两者流通的更大话语联系起来。