[𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐚𝐧, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚]
𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫:
Dr. Angel Naydenov (Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 / 日期: November 26, 2024 (Tuesday) / 2024年11月26日（星期二）
𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 / 時間: 16:00 – 17: 30 PM (HKT) / 下午4時至5時30分（香港時間）
𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 / 地點: ELB_204, CUHK/ 利黃瑤璧樓204室
𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 / 語言: English / 英文
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤:
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13697648
𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭:
This talk examines a world of Dionysian undifferentiation between social equals in China, which discards accumulated time through shared sensory indulgence. While the sensory has long been recognised as an important element in the production of sociality in China, it is the temporal aspects of embodied experience that are key to understanding its significance. In Lushan, people commonly seek experiences of immediate presence with others through acts of feasting, gambling, singing, and gossiping, all of which are key to the characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’. Mutual recognition through engagement in ‘pure sociability’ (Simmel) is the defining feature of this ethos and is a way for self and other to ascertain their place in time. The performative enactment of ‘pure sociability’ renders particular histories, wealth, ambitions, status, and individuality insignificant because they suggest discordant temporal horizons.
𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲:
Angel Naydenov’s research examines the entanglements of time, value, and selfhood in rural China. His book manuscript, Rhythms of Realisation: Time, Value, and Recognition in the Mountains of Southwest China, is based on 17 months of fieldwork in Sichuan and explores the dominant value pursuits through which subjects seek self-realisation and thus find their way in time.
𝐄𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲: jefferytse@cuhk.edu.hk
