"Modern Sexual Experience" and "New Industrial Wind" in new industrial poetry -evaluating Wang Xuexin's collection of "Blu -ray"

"Modern experience" and "new industrial style" in new industrial poetry

——Essuing Wang Xuexin's Collection "Blu -ray"

Text/Ai Jun

Wang Xuexin's new work "Blu -ray" was published by China Yanshi Publishing House in August 2022, which involves the new industrial theme. The poet named the collection of poems a "crystal language". On the one hand, it shows that Wang Xuexin keenly captured the pulse and modern experience of the times; on the other hand, it reflects the poet's courage and guts. Wang Xuexin chose a unique poetry theme: the new industrial revolution. The publishing of the collection of poetry "Blue Light" is a "paradigm revolution" in the poetic industry: it represents the anxiety that Chinese contemporary poets break the ancient idyllic poetry tradition, and transfer the objects of poetry from farming civilization to new industrial civilization. Value orientation has changed from nostalgia for the countryside to embrace of new industries; from critical to old cities to affirmation of science and technology cities and smart cities. "Blu -ray" opened a new literary imagination of readers in the new century.

1. What is "new industrial poetry"?

The "Blu -ray" is named "New Industrial Poetry" in Chinese new literature. Xu Gang believes that "due to the characteristics of a semi -colonial territory, in urban literature before 1949, industrial themes were 'absent". "[1] In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China Capitalism rather than nationalism. Therefore, at that time, industrial theme literature was mostly manifested as nationalist cities. [2]

Cai Xiang believes that since 1949, "building a modern and powerful industrialized country has always been one of the important political demands of the Chinese revolution." [3] Chinese contemporary literature was written in literature writing from 1950 to 1970. Raising the "industrial theme" writing trend. For example, Ai Wu's "Bai Lianchen Steel", Zhou Libo's "Iron Water Running", Xiao Jun's "May of May", etc. These novels constructing the city's imagination of the industrial revolution era. The above writing can be called "old industrial theme". In the literary writing of the old industrial theme, the city is related to chimneys, steam engines, screw caps, and Wang Xuexin's poems are new industrial themes.

Wang Xuexin's writing can be regarded as a writing of a specific moment. It benefits from the progress of the 21st century global scientific and technological revolution and produced in China to lead and lead the role of global knowledge and discourse. The emergence of "Blu -ray" means the arrival of a new moment. With the development of scientific and technological revolutions such as 5G, new energy, big data, the Internet of Things, and unmanned driving, the new industry has abandoned the mining of resources in the old industry, and has invested in the scientific and technological revolution, the information revolution, and the biological revolution. In the above background, the writing of Wang Xuexin's industrial theme is naturally different from the "old industrial theme", which can be named "new industrial poetry".

The new industry in Wang Xuexin's pen is represented by technology and wisdom: "The glory of the product and purity contains the blue sky/seems to belong to everyone" ("Industrial Center"); /Automatic regulations or conscious production relationships "(" New Industry Times ") ... Wang Xuexin uses simple and bright poetic language to construct positive new industrial imagination: intelligent, data, hygiene, modernization, etc.

2. Modernity: Imagine the city in the new industrial revolution

Modernity still believes in meta -narrative and overall discourse. Post -modernity represents some kind of resistance to modernity. It is full of division and uncertainty, and is a question of all generalization or overall words. "Modernist urban planners really want to pursue the" control 'as a "overall" metropolis through intended to design a' closed form ', but then modernist people think of the urban process as an irresistible and unstoppable and 'Chaos and disorderly'. "[4]

Wang Xuexin's writing is modern. The new industrial revolution he described and the urban space constructed by poetry has some general planning. "The eyebrows constitute a thick data and galaxy technology/with the sensor light waves of this city" ("New Neighbors"); ") Industry Center"), Wang Xuexin planned and govern urban space through poetic language. His poetry writing has both modernist aesthetic style, but also fits the discourse of the times. "Glory and wearing output value and fine clothes/on the historical revolution and amazing roads of the wind/use machinery and textiles to build stairs" ("A City of a City"). China's new industry is related to the output value and high growth. Wang Xuexin describes a modern experience of anti -Western modernity.

In Western modernity, urban imagination is often related to capitalist values ​​and order. The imagination of old cities or capitalist cities is often related to consumerism and commodity worship. In the aesthetic reconstruction of the poet, he eliminated the imagination of the city in the values ​​of assetist: void, desire, and consumerist culture prevailing; thereby introducing new cultural order and value ethics. Poetry through the connection between science and technology cities and ecology, poetry Forging new city memory, it means the birth of the image of the new city: intelligence, technology, efficient, and convenient.

3. The language style of "New Industrial Wind"

Wang Xuexin's poetry is restrained, rational, and calm. His poetry language and unique poetry image brings a sense of technology, the sense of times, and digital. In this regard, we might as well name its aesthetic style "new industrial style". The uniqueness of the new industrial style poetry aesthetic style is that due to the strangeness of its poetry image and poetry theme, it distinguishes it with the old poetry language and rigid poetry image, and it is pulled Open distance, these emerging nouns have a wealth of interpretation space. The combination of poetry and Cyber ​​and numbers allows us to see the breadth and depth of the expression of poetry, indicating a broad space of poetics. Wang Xuexin loves to use familiar things to mix and match with strange words to create new poetic imagination and literary logic. Wang Xuexin's poetry, such as the metaphor of high -frequency fixed combinations: a fixed combination of new industry+ecological environment (or daily life). For example, "the development zone means that the pigeon high -tech zone is the honey of the bee/carrying industry and brewing technology" ("Blue Time"); The nest of the Internet of Things/Uninvited ripples/forming a second hand rotation "(" Internet of Things Town "); ; "The digital economy in my mind/jumps from the tribes to several branches" ("Digital Economy"), these poetry metaphors broke the usual usage and conventional imagination, and enriched the senses of readers through strange mixes.

The combination of the new industry+ecological environment brings readers a new imagination. These images are dense and unfamiliar, creating the sense of distance, technology and freshness of readers. In the poetry's poetry rhetoric, through the various possibilities of exploring the language combination, we produce a wealth of space interpretation space. Technology, knowledge, wisdom, ecology, natural, and environmental connections, the language structure is a form of aesthetics, and the new industrial revolution is aesthetically academic. The poet constructs the reader's positive understanding of the city through the links of ecology, daily life and technology: progress, technology, intelligence, and changes. "Young robots/sleeveless shirts are new humans" ("Robot"). The words such as robots, light waves, intelligence, output value and other words, to build a utopian narrative for readers in the future of scientific and technological life. Wang Xuexin's new industrial style poetry writing builds new poetic aesthetics and daily ethics. By reshaping the new city imagination, it provides readers with a new sensory structure and shows new cultural order.

Wang Xuexin involved the theme of the "New Industrial Revolution" into the writing of the poem of contemporary poems, and undoubtedly opened a "paradigm revolution". Just as Jonathan Rabon's "Soft City", although it refers to the arrival of postmodernism, its description of London's life in the 1970s makes people feel a change, as a specific moment, writing, writing, writing, as a particular moment, writing, writing as a particular moment. "It heralds a new word. This kind of discourse later produced a variety of words that usually describe urban life ... Based on their own qualifications, it was established as a cultural aesthetic." [5] Wang Xuexin's poetry writing is the same The peak moment produced in China in global knowledge and discourse, the poetry writing of the poet's "new industrial theme" indicates the arrival of a new discourse. Poetry aesthetics exist.

Conclusion

Wang Xuexin's new work "Blu -ray" is a unique existence in the writing of Chinese new poems. First of all, it touches new industrial themes involved in few people, and deepen digitalization, robotics, 5G, the Internet of Things, big data, new industries, etc., showing the heterogeneity of poetry writing; Different criticism, Wang Xuexin showed affirmation of the new industrial revolution and future cities. Poetry expelled the negative imagination of capitalist culture in cities and constructed smart science and technology cities. His poetic writing shows the local modernity of anti -Western modernity. Finally, Wang Xuexin's new industrial style poetry language is calm and restrained, and through the new industry and ecological combination imagination, it will build a new aesthetic style.

About the Author

Ai Jun, formerly known as Liu Junjun, Ph.D. in Literature of Tsinghua University, Teacher at Hunan First Normal University, Postdoctoral University of Hunan Normal University

Edit: Liu Qihan

Source: Poetry Magazine

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