文化研究ROUTER X 台社論壇 X 重新思考民主論壇
又窮又厭世：當代青年的情感政治與貧窮化問題

 

時間：2019年3月8日（五）9:40-17:20（場地時間：9:00-18:00兩個時段）

地點：國立清華大學人社院310會議室（備用：A202）（現場採自由入座，場地座位有限，建議提前入場）。

 

主辦：《文化研究ROUTER》、台灣社會研究學會、重新思考民主論壇（《新國際》、《苦勞網》）
協辦：國立交通大學文化研究國際中心、國立清華大學亞太／文化研究中心、文化研究學會、《台灣社會研究季刊》、首爾大學社會發展硏究所（The Institute for Social Development and Policy Research）

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主旨：

2008年金融危機爆發，資本主義的經濟增長模式走到盡頭，各種矛盾更為加劇。彈性化與兼差多工的工作狀態與惡化的勞動保障已是常態，生活也面臨了貧窮化與不穩定的狀態，薪資追趕不上物價與房租（房價）的增長，帶來了過勞、窮忙、生活走向「下流」，以及情感上的憂鬱與焦慮。2011年，「崩世代」曾描繪了台灣經濟貧富差距擴大、政府財政赤字、以及社會福利破產的危機，強調當下的「小確幸」情感與生活形態，則是回應了「只要努力就能成功（買房、成家立業等）」等傳統人生成功意義已不再是未來的保證。2016年全面執政的民進黨，於2018年修惡《勞基法》，將勞工推往更過勞的處境。「厭世」與「厭世代」的出現是「小確幸」的另一面，描述著看不見未來（成功）的可能與過勞窮忙的處境，也隱含了台灣在國際與兩岸政治經濟矛盾下「困住了」的處境與尋求自我定位及認同的焦慮。
本次論壇從情感政治的角度，欲理解近年於台灣流行的「厭世」與「厭世代」一詞，以及分析當中的政治想像與青年文化，並參照了如中國大陸的「喪」文化、韓國、香港等青年狀態。同時，本論壇試圖進一步分析「厭世」現象所指涉的政治經濟問題，以及思考貧窮化的階級問題與不穩定的生活狀態。歡迎有興趣的朋友一同參與討論！

 

 

議程：

9:40-11:40【「厭世」的情感政治與青年文化 】
主持／引言：何東洪（輔仁大學應用心理學系副教授）
與談：

王智明（中央研究院歐美所副研究員）
厭世：台灣青年世代的情感政治

張智琦（《苦勞網》）
小感傷與「大」拒斥：台灣年輕詩人的「廢鬱詩」

謝碩元（愁城成員）
厭世代、搖滾與青年反叛文化

李許濤（上海大學文化研究系碩士生）
"喪"的現實與文化表徵之間：90後青年文化政治的可能性

 

13:00-15:00【「看不見未來」的希望／厭世政治】
主持／引言：王智明（中央研究院歐美所副研究員）
與談：
鄭亘良（《新國際》、《台社季刊》編輯）
看不見未來：台灣「厭世代」的世代論述

羅小茗（上海大學文化研究系副教授）
旁观未来：科幻想象中的青年定位
曾仲堅（北卡羅萊納大學教堂山分校傳播學博士）
香港買房的希望政治機制
周鈗涏（首爾大學社會發展硏究所選任硏究員）
Affect of Korean Dirt Spoon among Elite Youths

 

15:20-17:20【誰的厭世？再思貧窮化的階級問題】

主持／引言：
林深靖（《新國際》主編）
與談：
陳崇真（世新大學社會發展研究所碩士生）
2008年後的青年貧窮再現

張宗坤（政治大學勞工研究所碩士生）
青年貧窮化的政治經濟根源

林柏儀（台灣高等教育產業工會組織部主任）
誰是工人階級？高教青年的無產化

戴瑜慧（交通大學傳播與科技學系助理教授）
製造流浪──居無定所的台北寄居蟹 ※半開放對話論壇，主持引言10分鐘，與談每人20分鐘，綜合討論30分鐘。

 

 

※論壇以中文進行，《苦勞網》與ROUTER將於臉書進行直播（TBC）。
※發言內容將分別整理收錄於2019年底《文化研究ROUTER》、《台灣社會研究季刊》（左異聲響）、其他（如Inter-Asia Cultural Studies或《人間思想》，未定）。

 

ROUTER X ATSS X Rethinking Democracy
Forum on Youth Poverty and their Weariness Feeling

 

Time / Date: 9:40-17:20, March 8, 2019
Venue: Room 310, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan
Organizers: 

ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies, Association of Taiwan Social Studies, Rethinking Democracy (New Internationalism & Coolloud)
Co-organizers: International Institute for Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University (TBC), Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies (Taishe), The Institute for Social Development and Policy Research at Seoul National University (TBC)

 

To attend the meeting, please fill out the form: https://goo.gl/forms/nyfsSY9068dFPGac2 

 

About

The economic development of Capitalism has reached its limit since the financial crisis in 2008 when various political, economic and social conflicts have also increased to produce tension across generations. Along with the high-rise housing rents and living expenses, flexible and poor working condition brings poverty and precarity to the foreground and manifested in the discourse of youth melancholy and anxiety. The “BOMB generation” (the generation of collapse) in 2011 describes the growing economic inequality and deficit and the crisis of social welfare systems. The “little assured happiness”—that focuses on the enjoyment and happiness on small things right now—thus responds to the lack of happiness elsewhere: there is no longer guarantee on future success after years of hard work, contrary to what the neoliberalist myth always tells. “Feeling weary” and the “generation of weariness”, the other side of the “little assured happiness”, indicates such no-future emotion and working poor condition. Such a weary feeling also reflects Taiwan’s political and economic predicaments and its searching for its own position in the international society. The forum would like to understand the weary feeling, its political imagination and the youth culture from the politics of emotion. It invites perspectives from China, Korea and Hong Kong to shed light on the issue in the regional context. In addition, the forum seeks to analyze the political and economic condition behind the cultural phenomenon of “feeling weary” and look into the issue of class in povertization and precarious living condition of youth today.

 

Agenda

 

9:40-11:40
【Topic】The Politics of the Weariness Feeling and Youth Culture
Moderator:
Tunghung HO (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Fu Jen University)

Discussants:
Chih-Ming WANG (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)
Weariness: The Politics of Affect among Young Taiwanese

Chih-Chi CHANG (Reporter, Coolloud):
Poetry about ‘Weariness’ by Young Taiwanese Poets
Shuo-Yuan HSIEH (No-nonsense Collective)
The Weary Generation, Rock, and Youth Rebellion Culture

Xu Tao LI (Postgraduate, Department of Cultural Studies, Shanghai University)
“Sang” Culture in China and the formation of Youth Political 

13:00-15:00
【Topic】There is No Future: The Politics of Hope and Weariness 

Moderator:
Chih-Ming WANG (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)

Disucssants:
Keng-Liang CHENG (Editor, New Internationalism & Taishe)
There is No Future: The Generation of “Weariness” and its Discourse

Xiaoming LUO (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Shanghai University):
Look at their Future on the Sidelines: Youth Position in the Sci-Fi Fictions

TSANG Chung Kin (PhD, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
House Buying as Hope Mechanism in Hong Kong

Yunjeong JOO (Research Fellow, ISDPR, Seoul National University):
Affect of Korean Dirt Spoon among Elite Youths

15:20-17:20
【Topic】Who Feels Weary? Rethinking Class in Povertization Moderator:
Shenjing LIN (Chief Editor, New Internationalism)

Discussants:
Chungchen CHEN (Postgraduate, Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University)
The Representation of Youth Poverty in Taiwan after the year 2008

Zackary Zong-Kun CHANG (Postgraduate, Institute for Labor Research, National Chengchi University)
Youth Povertization from the Political Economy Perspective

Por-Yee LIN (Director of Organization, Taiwan Higher Education Union)
Who is the Working Class? Proletarianization of Youth in Higher Education

Yuhui TAI (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Technology, National Chao Tung University)
Taipei Hermit Crab: Taipei Homeless People Living without Place 

※10mins for moderator; 20mins for discussants; 30mins for QA. Live broadcasting on Coolloud’s Facebook
※Language: Mandarin
※All contents will be respectively collected in “Forum” in Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies and “Left Dissonances” in Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies (Both TSSCI) and others (TBC).