波德莱尔是较早地在现代社会语境的美学意义上对现代性思想进行阐述的文艺批评家,他认为“现代性就是过渡、短暂、偶然,就是艺术的一半,另一半是永恒和不变”。问题正在于:我们的艺术和社会现实过于沉溺在过渡、短暂和偶然,却遗忘了永恒和不变。现实世界因此已显现为整体的废墟征候。废墟的本质是历史废墟,现代性的加速度远远超过了原有时空关系的承受能力,致使世界空间坍塌破败。原有的历史精神亦成废墟,由可视的建筑废墟表征出来。建筑的衰败 Baudelaire is an earlier literary critic who elaborates modernity in the aesthetic sense of modern social context. He believes that “modernity is transitional, ephemeral and accidental, that is, half of art, and the other half is eternal And unchanged ”. The problem is: Our artistic and social reality is too indulged in transition, short and accidental, yet forgotten forever and unchanging. The real world has therefore emerged as a whole sign of ruin. The essence of the ruins is the ruins of history. The acceleration of modernity goes far beyond the bearing capacity of the original time-space relations, resulting in the collapse of the world space. The original spirit of history is also ruined by visual architectural ruins. The decline of architecture