Since the sudden, mass experience of spatial contraction through lockdown in the Covid19 pandemic, ‘nature’ has come to the symbolic fore in diverse and teeming ways. Amidst the anxiety, anger and the escalating inequalities, I have been struck – from within my particular context in the United Kingdom – by a discernible aesthetic shift in my social media feeds, where there is a new visibility of, and perhaps a re-enchantment by, the natural world. My Facebook and Instagram feeds are now fertile grounds for friends’ photos of wildflowers, spring blossoms, spinneys and streams, whether in country fields, home gardens or municipal parks. Other friends are sharing images of their first forays into home horticulture, surprised by their own joy at sprouting beans in windowsill pots. This re-enchantment by fresh air and foliage appears to be part of a much broader shift in our sensual relationship to nature – one that has been seeded in, and nutrified by, the new spatial conditions of pandemic. A UK poll conducted in early May 2020 showed that 53 percent of people expressed more appreciation for parks and the countryside since social distancing measures began, and 63 percent said protecting and enhancing such areas should be more of a priority in the wake of the pandemic (ITV, 2020b). Home gardening has proliferated, and the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society reported a fivefold rise in queries for advice.1 Nature has also become newly visible as a frame for articulating social inequalities. Public discussion of material inequality is now very often routed through the modalities of access to fresh air and greenery – as a Guardian headline put it, ‘There are now two classes, people with gardens and the rest of us’ (Blackall, 2020). In London, while those who frequented city parks were condemned as ‘selfish’ for daring to populate outdoor public areas, huge swathes of urban green space in the form of private golf clubs remained

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重新陷入危机：对英国乡村，未来和COVID-19的思考

自从在Covid19大流行中通过锁定突然发生大规模的空间收缩经验以来，“自然”已经以多种多样的方式出现在象征性的前沿。在焦虑，愤怒和不断加剧的不平等之中，我在英国的特定环境中被我的社交媒体Feed中明显的审美转变所打动，在那里我有了新的知名度，也许是重新着迷通过自然世界。我的Facebook和Instagram提要现在成为了朋友的野花，春天开花，棘刺和溪流照片的沃土，无论是在乡间田野，家庭花园还是市政公园中。其他朋友则分享了他们首次涉足家庭园艺的影像，他们为自己在窗台盆中发芽豆的喜悦感到惊讶。新鲜空气和树叶的重新魅力似乎是我们与大自然的感性关系发生更广泛转变的一部分-这种转变已在大流行的新空间条件中产生并得到了营养。2020年5月上旬进行的英国一项民意调查显示，自从社会隔离措施开始实施以来，有53％的人表示对公园和乡村有更多的赞赏，而63％的人表示，在大流行之后，保护和改善这些地区应成为当务之急（ ITV，2020b）。家庭园艺活动激增，英国皇家园艺学会报告的咨询需求增加了五倍。1大自然也成为人们表达社会不平等现象的新框架。如今，关于物质不平等的公开讨论经常通过获取新鲜空气和绿化的方式进行，正如《卫报》的标题所说：“现在有两个班级，有花园的人和我们其余的人”（Blackall，2020年）。在伦敦，那些经常光顾城市公园的人因敢于在户外公共区域居住而被判为“自私”，但仍以私人高尔夫俱乐部的形式存在着大量的城市绿地