Yang Guobin
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
AI Soc. 2021 Jan 15:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s00146-020-01141-5.
When the city of Wuhan was severely locked down on January 23, 2020 for 76 days due to the coronavirus outbreak, many residents started writing "lockdown diaries." This article argues these diaries constitute a kind of performance art for their authors, specifically, an 'art of endurance' as described by Shalson (2018). Keeping a diary requires a plan, but the following through of the plan is a contingent process requiring efforts and endurance. The challenges become particularly daunting for authors of online diaries in pandemic times. The article analyzes multiple types of endurance associated with the Wuhan lockdown diarists, showing that in digitally-driven environments, where potential collective responses are a key context, the lockdown diaries of Wuhan, like works of endurance art, engage with meanings that reach far beyond their original experience and context. Their stories of endurance are an allegory of the endurance of the entire city of Wuhan.
2020年1月23日，由于新冠病毒爆发，武汉市被严格封锁了76天，许多居民开始撰写“封城日记”。本文认为，这些日记对作者而言构成了一种表演艺术，具体来说，是沙尔森（2018年）所描述的“耐力艺术”。写日记需要一个计划，但计划的执行是一个偶然的过程，需要努力和耐力。在疫情期间，对于网络日记的作者来说，挑战尤为艰巨。本文分析了与武汉封城日记作者相关的多种耐力类型，表明在数字驱动的环境中，潜在的集体反应是一个关键背景，武汉的封城日记与耐力艺术作品一样，所涉及的意义远远超出了其最初的经历和背景。他们的耐力故事是整个武汉市耐力的寓言。
