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No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic
Cultural Studies ( IF 1.533 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 , DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1898026
Nicholas Holm 1
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ABSTRACT

In 2020, in the face of the unparalleled epidemiological threat posed by Covid-19, multiple governments around the world sought to contain the spread of the virus by imposing strict lockdown measures that dramatically limited the movement and gathering of citizens. Not only did these restrictions severely curtail the regular patterns of economic, political and cultural life, they also made it very hard to have fun. While this last point may appear flippant, this article proposes that a proper accounting for fun is absolutely necessary if we are to understand not just the challenges passed by lockdown measures, but also the legal and biomedical risks people were willing to take to engage in activities like hosting parties, surfing and attending raves, during a pandemic. Arguing against the idea of fun as a form of displaced political practice, I instead suggest that fun is best understood as an example of contingent, non-transcendent aesthetic value that is absolutely central to everyday desire and the appeal of popular culture. Often easy to overlook, the experience of lockdown brought the appeal and importance of fun into sharp relief in ways that point towards the powerful role fun plays in shaping our lives both during a pandemic and (hopefully) after.



中文翻译:

没时间玩:大流行期间参加聚会的政治

摘要

到2020年,面对Covid-19所带来的无与伦比的流行病学威胁,世界各地多个政府都试图通过实施严格的封锁措施来遏制病毒的传播,这些措施大大限制了公民的活动和聚集。这些限制不仅严重限制了经济,政治和文化生活的常规方式,而且还使他们很难获得乐趣。。尽管最后一点可能看起来很浮躁,但本文建议,如果我们不仅要了解锁定措施所带来的挑战,还要了解人们愿意从事的法律和生物医学风险,那么对娱乐的正确考虑绝对必要。例如在大流行期间举办聚会,冲浪和参加狂欢派对。我反对将娱乐视为一种无所作为的政治实践形式的观点,相反,我认为最好将娱乐理解为一种偶然的,非超越的审美价值的例子,这种审美价值对于日常欲望和流行文化的吸引力绝对至关重要。锁定的经验通常很容易被忽视,它使乐趣的吸引力和重要性大打折扣,这表明在大流行期间和之后(希望如此),乐趣在塑造我们的生活中发挥着强大的作用。

更新日期:2021-05-04
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