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COM Research Seminar: From Bilateral Creatives to Wanghong: A Schizoanalysis of Chinese Platforms and Digital Culture by Dr Jian LIN
(POSTED: 2024-09-20 5:44 PM )
COM Research Seminar: COM Research Seminar: From Bilateral Creatives to Wanghong: A Schizoanalysis of Chinese Platforms and Digital Culture by Prof. Jian LIN, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Date & Time: 30 September 2024, 16:00 - 17:30. Venue: Multimedia Laboratory (M5055),5/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, please click https://www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Public/AppForms/StI_AppForm.aspx?id=1131 to register for the seminar by 30 Sep 2024. Language: English. Abstract In this talk, I introduce a schizoanalysis of Chinese platforms and digital culture, building on my previous studies of Chinese creative workers and wanghong creators. I borrow Deleuze and Guattari's (1983) schizoanalysis of modern capitalism to highlight the complex relations between capital and state power in governing Chinese platformed cultural production. Such a state-capital complex leads to renewed opportunities and precariousness in the platform and creative economy and exposes systemic divergence in governance and fragmented and multifaced subjectivity of creative and creator individuals. Instead of simplifying this complex according to economic or state reductionism, my study aims to underscore the dynamic, heterogeneous and sometimes contradictory discourses and forces shaping Chinese platform capitalism. It is a cultural and platformed economy haunted by schizophrenia, generating spaces of agency and autonomy yet also containing them in an endless game of push and pull from the state and the capital. The rooted desire for public expression and better lives is made “to desire its own repression”: social mobility and innovation juxtaposed with censorship and exploitation in the production of creativity and wanghong. About the speaker: Jian Lin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Chinese Creator Economies: Labour, Subjectivity and the Bilateral Creatives (NYU Press 2023) and Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment (co-authored with David Craig and Stuart Cunningham, Palgrave McMillan 2021). Lin is the cultural commons and book review editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and the associate editor of the journal Communication and the Public. For enquiries, please call 34428677.
Category:
Academic Seminar
Department:
Department of Media and Communication (COM)
Venue:
Multimedia Laboratory (M5055),5/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Start Date:
2024-09-30 16:00
End Date:
2024-09-30 17:30
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