Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene

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Acid Horizon offers affordable online philosophy and humanities courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Can you feel homesick for something that hasn't even disappeared yet? This week Craig and Adam sit down with Dr. Ennan Wu, Wenhan Hu, and Tiger Liu to talk about Chinese Dreamcore, an internet aesthetic built from sound images of old classroom bells and the half-remembered echoes of early milennium schoolyards. We get into anticipatory homesickness, tangping 躺平 (lying flat), and runxue 润学 (the "study" of leaving the country), and what Mark Fisher's hauntology looks like filtered through the dreamcore genre.  Read the paper/listen to the tracks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397762735_Listening_to_hauntological_time_Chinese_Dreamcore_millennial_memories_and_the_temporal_crisis_in_the_Anthropocene A note on the music: The track in this episode is a remix of Nop by ChenYueLong, a foundational Chinese dreamcore track, used for research purposes alongside the paper "Listening to Hauntological Time: Chinese Dreamcore, Millennial Memories, and the Temporal Crisis in the Anthropocene" by Ennan Wu, Zhe Tang, and Jianhao Xia, with Wenhan Hu assisting on the r