Writer Yang Qingxiang's latest collection of literary essays "A Kind of Imitation of Spiritual Life" was recently launched by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, and the book is composed of three chapters: "The Garden of Drinking", "A Lot of Time in the Wasteland" and "Fireworks into the World". "The Garden of Drinking" consists of eight book reviews and essays. As a scholar and critic, Yang Qingxiang analyzed the works of Gu Cheng, Wang Xiaobo, Lu Yao and other writersIn the chapter "A Lot of Time in the Wasteland", Yang Qingxiang ** a hot topic in the society;"Fireworks in the World" consists of five personal travelogues, in which Yang Qingxiang recounts what he has seen and heard during his travels at home and abroad.
Yang Qingxiang. These articles ponder the question of how to overcome this era in yourselfIn the spiritual world, how to place the love and fear of a generation?How does reading connect the self with the imaginary community?
On the occasion of the publication of the book, the light and shadow of a generation - Yang Qingxiang's "A Spiritual Life of Imitation" new book launch was held in Beijing. Writer Liang Hong, writer A Yi, editor-in-chief of Youth Literature Zhang Jing, and author of A Spiritual Life of Imitation Yang Qingxiang lead readers into the spiritual life of a generation.
She finished the noodles and left the eggs for the end, she drank the coffee, tasted the bitterness beforehand, she got married, and she told me that the calm was like putting a chapter on a piece of paper, like finishing coffee, smoking a cigarette that someone else respected, living today, she decided to compromise, and then cried and said that she couldn't hold any delicious food.
A Spiritual Life of Imitation" book cover.
At the beginning of the event, Zhang Jing led readers into the world of texts with Yang Qingxiang's poem "A Kind of Imitation of Modern Life". Zhang Jing believes that "A Spiritual Life of Imitation" is Yang Qingxiang's self-reflection, "when he looks back at his works, he is looking at himself at that time, how he sees the world at that time, and how he views the relationship between people", which is the happiness that belongs to a writer alone.
Literature is the most sensitive nerve endings of an era, and Liang Hong pointed out that this book captures the core issues of this era. "A kind of imitation of spiritual life" is a very distinctive feature of the times in the past ten years, "what kind of life are we living, and what kind of life is not a kind of imitation of spiritual life" is the thinking that this book brings us. This collection of essays encapsulates the major technological reforms and humanistic spirit of the times, answers the core questions of the times and tries to find the corresponding mental state.
Ah Yi believes that this book uses many carriers such as Lu Yao, Wang Xiaobo, and Yu Hua, which is the reading history of a generation and the spiritual history of a generation.
Liang Hong believes that the "* era" may be different for everyone. For himself, 2008-2019 is the first decade of Liangzhuang, during which Liang Hong constantly returns to Liangzhuang and the fertile soil that nourishes life. "The combing of the ** era is the recollection and reflection of the past, a glimpse of the cracks within the times and the contradictory self in the cracks. Therefore, the so-called ** era is a process of constructing itself. ”
Ah Yi also recalled his ** era, unwilling to be reluctant to live in the past of the police in the small town, and gradually walked out of the small town, recorded life with words, and became today's self through continuous writing. Whether it is the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 2008-2019, it is the first era. The epoch is not so much about certain characteristics as it is about the strivers who have colored the epochs they have experienced and rejuvenated them.
Wang Xiaobo wrote in the afterword of "** Times": The whole theme of this book is our lives. The third series of "A Spiritual Life of Imitation" is entitled "Fireworks into the World", and Yang Qingxiang said, "Every writer or every person who lives is in life, and it is impossible to isolate from the world;But we still keep a certain distance from others." Regarding the relationship between "him" and the author, Yang Qingxiang believes that "every writer has moments of hesitation, and the characters presented by the writer in the book are richer and richer selves than reality." A good writer can reinvent himself."
During the dialogue, Zhang Jing started from the development of science and technology of the times, and talked about the different ways of thinking of scientists, industrialists and humanists when computer technology arrived. Scientists are dealing with what can happen, industrialists are addressing how this kind of technology appears in our lives, and humanists use morality and ethics to determine the value and significance of this technology in real life. As a scholar, Yang Qingxiang thinks about the collision and wrestling between humans and AI after AI enters our era.
Based on his own real-life experience, Liang Hong talked about two levels of AI, one is the AI made by pure technology, and the other is the AI that exists with us in life. From a technical point of view, AI is created by people, which is a reality that cannot be changed, and it is a purely technological existence. The other is the AI that accompanies our existence, accompanies our emotional life, and has spiritual resonance and communication with us. Since technology has become a super-fast thing in life and society, the humanities about technology have become more and more important and urgent.
Ah Yi pointed out that AI is constantly changing our lives, and Chinese language and Wenxin Yiyan are more and more deeply involved in the creation and life of writers, bringing us the convenience of writing. At the same time, it also brings about the loss of human emotions (including friendship, love, and family affection), and the reduction of memory, knowledge, and sense of achievement. In the face of AI, humanity seems to be defeated, and the science fiction movie "Frankenstein" of the last century has expressed this concern and thinking.
The scene of the event. Yang Qingxiang talked about how he once gave a lecture "The Last Man and the First Poem", the end of the human era and the beginning of AI. But today, it seems that we have too much radical imagination and public enthusiasm for AI, which has brought some discipline. Yang Qingxiang has a kind of self-confidence and optimism in this regard, and human beings have always had the uniqueness of the subject in dealing with the relationship between the world and others, words and things.
Yang Qingxiang was born in 1980. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of Chinese. His main works include the criticism collection "Post-80s, What to Do", "Social Problems and Literary Imagination", and the poetry collection "I Choose to Cry and Love You", "The World is Equal to Zero" and so on. He is the editor-in-chief of the large-scale research series "New Coordinate Book Series" for young writersScience fiction ** series "Green Science Fiction Series";English version of the post-80s short story ** collection "The Sound of Salt Forming";He has won the Feng Mu Literary Award, the Mao Dun Literary Newcomer Award, and the Lu Xun Literary Award.
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