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From "inner volume" to "lying flat": the social mentality in the internet hot word
Editor's Note
The sudden rise of the term "involution" into public use is undoubtedly an interesting cultural phenomenon in 2020. In the recently rated 2021 "Top Ten Internet Terms" and "Top Ten Buzzwords", "Lying Flat" frequently appears. From the "inner volume" to the "lying flat", behind it reflects a history of contemporary social mentality and the development of network culture. As a symptom of the "inner volume" and "lying flat" reflected in the class solidification, social flow and other issues must be highly valued, the whole society needs to form a joint force, come up with countermeasures, and truly implement the "prevention of social class solidification, smooth upward mobility channels, create opportunities for more people to get rich, form a development environment in which everyone participates, and avoid 'inner volume' and 'lying flat'". Exploring and Arguing has long been concerned with the issue of Chinese social mentality, and has compiled relevant articles published by this journal and their summaries in the past year for the benefit of readers.
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Digital fetishism: the essence of "involution"
Xu Yingjin | Exploration and Controversy, No. 3, 2021
"Involution", originally a socio-academic term used to describe a particular pattern of rice farming, is now being used in a generalized way to refer to any social phenomenon of excessive competition. This generalization use faces the following theoretical risks: in the original context of sociologists using "involution", the overcoming of "involution" is often mediated by the substitution of the market economy for the natural economy, and many of the so-called "involution" phenomena in contemporary society are precisely the derivative consequences of the logical operation of capital. Therefore, for the correct diagnosis of the current so-called many "involution" phenomena, it is necessary to adopt other discourse frameworks. Hegel's critique of "digital fetishism" in Logic, and Marx's critique of "commodity fetishism" in Capital, will provide a solid theoretical foundation for this discursive framework.
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Xu Yingjin | Digital fetishism: the essence of "involution"
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"Inner Volumeization" and the Reconstruction of the World of Meaning: Discussion with Professor Xu Yingjin
Cheng Qing | Exploration and Controversy, No. 7, 2021
"Inner volume" has entered the current cultural space from a professional academic vocabulary into a "hot word" with a broad meaning, reflecting the new generation's new understanding of the meaning of "labor" (human activity). The function of "labor" in satisfying the necessities of survival gradually weakened, but the consumer society that focused on "privateness" suppressed the possibility of participating in public affairs. The rapid development of Internet information technology has made people more and more deeply obtain a large number of exchanges and leisure "virtual experience", and began to form a new network virtual community, but the "virtual world" still cannot replace the "real world" experience, can only play a kind of "real world" supplement and adjustment role, the new generation is also difficult to use the "virtual experience" itself to complete the reconstruction of the meaning of life. More notably, the high-speed interactivity of information also makes modern people more and more emphasize "immediacy", and the instantaneous experience of "now" becomes very important, which makes the "history" and the hopeful "future" imagination with a complete meaning context excluded from the framework of meaning construction.
Cheng Qing | "inner volume" and the reconstruction of the world of meaning - and discussed with Professor Xu Yingjin
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Analysis of the phenomenon of synthetic syndrome lying flat
Wang Xingfu | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
Lying flat is a complex field of meaning, containing different demands and meanings: first, lying flat means leisure and free time, which is the basic requirement of human life; second, lying flat partly expresses people's dissatisfaction with productionism and consumerism in industrialized society, and expresses the positive desire to adjust the relationship between man and nature, man and others, and man and himself; finally, lying flat reflects the outstanding problems that need to be solved in the current society. For those who are deeply trapped in a dilemma and suffer from internal entanglements, we should not only have a sympathetic understanding of their situation, but also eliminate the root causes of this lying through the development and improvement of society. If the phenomenon of lying flat is actively treated in this way, the problem of lying flat has a broader meaning.
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Lying flat: the "back wave" culture under intergenerational conflict
Xu Jilin | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
For lying flat, there can be a multi-dimensional interpretation, and the most exemplary lying flat is a special phenomenon belonging to the post-90s generation, which is a manifestation of the post-wave culture. There are three different forms of the current layman: a false lying-downist, a positive lying-flat-bearer, and a negative lying-downist. Most lay-down people are "lying flat" passive lying-flat-lying. These three different types and postures are to be distinguished and discerned. The most noteworthy thing should be the urgent problems that need to be solved, such as the psychological and social structure of Chinese youth reflected behind the lying flat doctrine. Society should act proactively to restore confidence to more lay people.
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From preventive inhibition to the crisis of modernity: lying flat on the past and the afterlife
Zhu Guohua | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
Lying flat is a state of mind that means being willing to go downstream, acknowledging failure, and abandoning the rules of the game in society. Lying flat sounds intertwine with the projections of history, the mysteries of human nature and the frustration of reality. Measures should be taken to improve the social conditions in which lying flatness breeds and thus to eliminate as much social resentment as possible. If this is the case, then the background of lying flatness will still not change, and the recognition of failure will still be transformed into a gesture of life or aesthetic taste, but the heaviness and sorrow in it will drift away or at least gradually evaporate in the constantly renewed discourse of lying flatness.
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Self-deconstructing lying flatness
-- "Lying Flat Justice" critique
Wang Jinlin | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
"Lying Flat Justice Theory" comes from a social media post "Lying Flat is Justice", and the owner put forward a survival proposition with "low desire, low demand, low consumption, and less social connection" (hereinafter referred to as "three lows and one less") as the main characteristics according to his own lifestyle and life consciousness. Man is a human being, depending on his subjectivity, and this subjectivity can only be reflected when a person lies down - lying flat "embodies" human subjectivity. This is the essence of the "lying justice theory." This article discusses whether lying flatness is legitimate, resistant, and even subjective. Lying flat does not have a real sense of legitimacy; lying flat is essentially only a marginal way of survival, not only does not have resistance, but also can not escape parasitic and dependent; the individual does not enrich himself in the lying flat state, but nihilizes the self.
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Forward is Justice: Reflections on "Lying Flat"
Cheng Boqing | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
"Lying flat" as a manifestation of the state of mind does not appear in isolation or suddenly, but is a global experience of modernity. Lying flat is a state of lack of meaning, and we should pay more attention to the state of youth in the field of production organization and distribution, and give value and meaning to the struggling individual with the help of regulatory ideals. Guided by this ideal, going forward is justice, but lying flat is not.
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Lying flat: Accelerating the perceptual deceleration of young people in society
Lu Heying | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
After entering the era of digital technology, social culture and people's daily life as a whole have been neatly bundled on the acceleration train, making the current youth culture develop a feature around acceleration. The rapid deployment and allocation of daily life and even the time of life is the time rationality followed by the self-governance of young people at present, and the accelerated time cognition model is accelerating to become the operating mechanism of reasonable self-management and self-planning between young people. When the governance and action of each time unit in the intergenerational life of young people must maximize the benefits, and there is no other way, the economic logic of acceleration is introduced into human development. Lying flat is a symptomatic emotion in this situation between young generations, but the explosion adds new characteristics when individual governance and accelerated logic collide. Deliberately decelerating lying flat does not provide an effective way for young generations to counter the acceleration of time. Lying flat youth is only the self-imitation of individual young people between generations, and in society, it is more of a circle-breaking and resonance caused by "courage and cattle and not fear of difficulties."
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Network Hot Word Research Meta Critique
——Take the study related to "lying flat" as an example
Tao Dongfeng | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
Internet buzzwords or Internet buzzwords have now become a barometer of social psychology and the spirit of the times. The emergence of a buzzword not only always affects public exchanges for a period of time, but also often becomes a new topic in humanities and social science research and a new hot spot in academic conferences. However, in the current research on network hot words, there are problems such as unclear connotations and abstraction of analysis. The study of online buzzwords such as "lying flat" and the important messages they convey must be integrated into social analysis, especially the institutional analysis framework, in order to grasp the key points.
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"Lying Flat": An alternative posture that resists deep alienation
Ma Zhonghong | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
The "lying flat" language system allows a history of contemporary social mentality and the development of youth culture to reflect complex and changeable meanings, and express an alternative defensive posture. "Lying flat" is the result of accelerating the social and temporal system to continuously drive away individuals, weaken the autonomy of life, and create a rupture between life and the world and thus deep self-alienation. As a cultural symptom, "lying flat" is embodied in the acceleration of society to bring a steady stream of anxiety, fear, depression, self-doubt and many other modern diseases; the time system is designed into all aspects of social development, emerging technology companies for the benefit of the use of technology and human weaknesses, the data of life, so that people are alienated into machines; people's desire to consume is stimulated indefinitely, but the real consumption happiness is replaced by the false happiness created by shopping, and the alienation of people and things accelerates; many aspects of society are no longer synchronized, "lying flat" The race develops a strong sense of deprivation both cognitively and de factoly. "Lying flat" means slowing down, and the different postures of "lying flat" show the differentiated strategies of different groups to cope with acceleration.
Ma Zhonghong | "Lying Flat": An alternative posture that resists deep alienation
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Typing and Logic: How "Lying Flat" Happens
——An analysis based on merton's theory of social normlessness
Wang Yuwen Wang Maofu | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
The phenomenon of "lying flat", which is hotly discussed at present, has complexity and cannot be generalized. This complexity can be divided into three ideal types: resistance "lying flat", ritual "lying flat", and swinging "lying flat" from the perspective of Merton's social normless theory. These three types of youth "lie flat" and are different in terms of microscopic mechanism, class foundation, diffusion logic, and individual manifestation. The current occurrence of the phenomenon of "lying flat" among Chinese youth is the result of the spread of different types of "lying flat" across levels, which also makes "lying flat" resonate across classes, which may lead to a certain degree of dissolution of mainstream moral discourse.
Wang Yuwen Wang Maofu | typing and logic: How "Lying Flat" Occurs: An Analysis Based on merton's Social Irregularity Theory Perspective
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Labor and dignity – the logical premise of "not lying flat" in the digital age
Qiu Zeqi | Exploration and Controversy, No. 12, 2021
From "working for easy work" and "changing labor for goods" to "changing labor for capital", the nature of labor has undergone revolutionary changes. In the digital age, there are more diverse forms of labor, and gig labor is only one way for people to do their best. Providing labor opportunities and giving people the opportunity to participate in labor is the biggest positive aspect of social development in the digital age. In addition to factoryization, gig labor in the digital age also allows workers to regain the autonomy, freedom, and freedom to dominate labor. In Chinese culture, hard work is the practice form of human beings doing their best and the source of dignity. The connotation of hard work is different, and the path to dignity is also very different. It is a difficult problem for labor not only to receive monetary remuneration, but also to enjoy dignity in the digital age, which gives both individual workers and digital platform enterprises the tools to obtain dignity. At the same time, advocating the glory of labor is also the proposition of the digital age, lying flat is by no means the way to obtain human dignity; of course, the dignity of labor is also the logical premise of "not lying flat".
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