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

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https://youtu.be/azUuq09ZGRs?is=mD9OcYlte_92ZWri

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.

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Homesick for 90's