內容介紹
“購物烏托邦”是一個虛擬建築，一個六角形的購物中心。地面上下共10層，按垂直方向將城市生活的各種機能高度濃縮：專賣店、美容院、房產展銷處、超級市場、兒童樂園、遊戲城、鬼屋、美食城……然而它也絕非一塵不染，和這個城市一樣，在其鮮亮光潔的高處之外還有其黑黑的私處：潮濕的地下室，陰暗的走道，幽閉的洗手間……光芒四射的“購物烏托邦?”是城市的燈塔，中央漩渦般的中庭是生活五光十色的萬花筒，而“離開它，外面便是茫茫黑夜……”小說以“購物烏托邦?”內的店鋪為地理坐標，多線性地展開了對購物中心一天日常生活的敘述。小說將在購物中心各個場所之間游移的十餘組具有類型意義的角色編織組構，他們來自中國的各個角落，帶著不同的社會階層背景，以不同的動機和心情，在同一天交匯於同一場所，並去向各自撲朔迷離的未來。他們共同構成一個多元的敘事建築——而只有在購物中心這個集體意識的公共場所，在這個逐漸替代了城市廣場而成為唯一的公共場所，這樣的敘事才能形成。
在《感覺的訓練》之後，“購物烏托邦”將購物空間作為“感官現實”空間的背景，來探討在今天的現實中人們感官世界的形成。
《購物烏托邦》插圖：段建宇；封面設計圖：姜珺
中文版，20.5 x14 cm, 38 Pages, 大道出版社, 香港，2002,ISBN 962-85924-5-9
"Shopping Utopia" is a hypothesis constructed as a hexagonal shopping mall. It has a total of 10 storeys, and comprises elements within its vertical structure to highly enrich modern-day city living: specialty shops, beauty salons, real estate agencies, supermarkets, playgrounds, amusement-park horror houses, food centres... Yet, it is certainly not spotless, and just like this city, there are sinister secret cloisters despite the sparkling cleanliness of the high-rise building: damp cellers, dark alleys, locked washrooms... This shining "Shopping Utopia ?" is the city's lighthouse, with its dazzling central quadrangle teeming like a vibrant kaleidoscope of life.However, "once you leave, all there is out there is the endless night..."
The novel situates itself within a shop in this "Shopping Utopia ?", and through a multitude of narratives, it describes a day in the life of this shopping complex.It weaves together significant events occurring to 10 individuals in various spaces within the shopping mall. They come from different parts of China and possess disparate social backgrounds. Each of them have different motives and emotions. They interact with one another on this one particular day within the same place, and then are propelled separately into each of their own unknown future. Together, they form a multi-voiced structure – and it is only in the collective consciousness that is the shopping mall, in this sole remaining public space that has gradually substituted the city's public square, that such a narrative can take place.
After "Exercises in Sensation: Theory and Practice+ Sex History", "Shopping Utopia" uses the background of a shopping space as a means of "sensing reality", to investigate how we construct sensory reality in contemporary times.
Cover image and drawings: Duan Jianyu
Diagram: Jiang Jun
French Version, 17.5 x 11 cm, 132 Pages, Bleu de Chine, Paris, 2003,ISBN:2-910884-69-4
