Dialectics of perception and imagination: Embodied politics of atmosphere in Xiqiao Road, Nanjing

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI:10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101044

Weitao Wang , Min Zhang , Peipei Chen , Xiaoxu Chen

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Abstract

In the social media era, scholars tend to reduce the online digital images of cities to readable visual-centric texts dominated by ideologies such as platform capitalism and symbolic consumerism, treating symbols and affects as antagonistic. This study attempts to deconstruct this dichotomy and explain the visual-centric paradigm in digital images from the perspective of affective atmospheres based on an ethnography of 20 participants on Nanjing's Xiqiao Road. Built on atmosphere theory and material imagination theory, we suggest that an embodied politics of atmosphere is constituted by perception and imagination. Perceptions foster a holistic understanding of place among participants through peripheral visions, which is potentially consistent with the logic of online dissemination of digital images. In contrast, material imagination represents the creative pole of the body and establishes a new surface aesthetics of digital images. Faced with visual-centric notions of place in contemporary digital images, illustrating the embodied politics of the affective atmosphere can help motivate people to transcend existing paradigms and experience place through a more creative vision.

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感知与想象的辩证法：南京西桥路的氛围政治

在社交媒体时代，学者们倾向于将城市的在线数字图像还原为可读的视觉中心文本，这些文本由平台资本主义和符号消费主义等意识形态主导，将符号和情感视为对立的。本研究基于对南京西桥路 20 名参与者的民族志调查，试图解构这种二分法，并从情感氛围的角度解释数字图像中以视觉为中心的范式。在氛围理论和物质想象力理论的基础上，我们认为氛围的具身政治是由感知和想象力构成的。感知通过外围视觉促进参与者对地点的整体理解，这可能与数字图像的在线传播逻辑相一致。与此相反，物质想象力代表了身体的创造力，为数字图像建立了新的表面美学。面对当代数字图像中以视觉为中心的地点概念，说明情感氛围的体现政治有助于激励人们超越现有范式，通过更具创造性的视角体验地点。

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Emotion Space and Society Multiple-

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3.90

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11.10%

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45 days

期刊介绍： Emotion, Space and Society aims to provide a forum for interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places. These aims are broadly conceived to encourage investigations of feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. Questions of emotion are relevant to several different disciplines, and the editors welcome submissions from across the full spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. The journal editorial and presentational structure and style will demonstrate the richness generated by an interdisciplinary engagement with emotions and affects.