英国上市公司官网365網絡與新媒體專業教師王聖博士，與西北大學文學院高翔博士等組成Panel，于8月12日-15日赴上海市參加The 12th Association for Cultural Studies "Crossroads in Cultural Studies"（2018“十字路口”全球文化研究論壇），該國際會議由Association for Cultural Studies (ACS)組辦，為當前全球文化研究最重要的國際會議。首屆會議于1996年在芬蘭召開，以後每兩年在世界不同地方舉辦一次。 2018年8月，第12屆會議（Crossroadsin Cultural Studies 2018）将在上海大學召開，這也是該會首次來到中國大陸。由文化研究協會（ACS）組織的“十字路口會議”每隔一年在世界各地舉行，先後在悉尼（澳大利亞）、伯明翰（英國）、香槟分校（美國）、伊斯坦布爾（土耳其）、Kingston（牙買加）、香港（中國）、巴黎（法國）、坦佩雷（芬蘭）等舉辦。本屆會議是首次在中國大陸舉行，由上海大學于2018年8月11日至15日承辦。
本次大會分為兩個部分：4天（8月12--15日）的大會（conference），以及為世界各地青年安排的1天（8月11日）的青年專場（pre-conference）。“青年專場”（pre-conference）大會為來自世界不同地區和國家的研究生、青年教師和文化實踐者提供對話和交往平台，青年專場在雙年會正式開始前一天（即2018年8月11日）舉辦文化研究。王聖博士與西北大學文學院高翔博士、南開大學李飛博士等組成Panel作了專場報告。王聖博士作了From Foreworld to Self-Cultivation: the Modernization of Chinese mythology in Network novels的主題發言，詳細闡述了當今網絡文學背後構成的文化機制及其曆史症候，發言摘要如下：
Chinese traditional culture broke into a deep break after the leap of modernity, especially by the May 4th Movement with complete negation of traditional culture. As a historical memory of collective unconsciousness, mythologies have to realize the transformation of modernity. It happened in 21c in China by the rise of network novels which is a new space for communication as the mirror of ideology. Thus, we see fantasy has become one of the main streams of Chinese network novels. There are two patterns in the mystery fiction, foreworld and cultivation, both of them try to establishing the logic of industrial society in place of the organic of primitive society. But rational logic brings the landscape of consumerism, destroyed the collective unconscious of Mythology. Chinese mythologies are also facing a situation of collapse resulting in the myth of entropy. Internet fictions have interrupted the circular movement in literature in Anatomy of Criticism by Frye, which could be regarded as the unique modern consequence in China. A high-level imitation of collectivism is turning around to Low-level imitation not by God but only the potentiality of human self through the adventure and cultivation of instrumental rationality. Myth is no longer a man's self transcendence but the realization of the desire of modern society. So there are three kinds of consequences. First, myths have lost their faith power and people are falling into the planarization of desire of modernization. Second, the novels are faced with the scarcity of the story resources. The last, the internet fictions are losing its appeal. Only internet fictions get rid of instrumental rationality and vulgar pragmatism and go back to super utilitarian Aesthetic, it could save the destruction of mythology in contemporary China.
此次會議彙集了全球頂級文化研究學者，是當前文化研究前沿成果的交彙和激發的盛會。尤其是為青年學者提供了将對話的高端平台，通過學術報告獲得直接相關的全球學者的關注與意見，并帶入交叉與全景的研究視野，提升研究的水平。
（英国上市公司官网365 王聖）
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