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跨入21世紀後的第一個20年，我們對未來的想像已佈滿舊時代的參照。從當代藝術裡的檔案熱及歷史重演、影視作品流行的時代劇及宮廷劇，到流行音樂裡繁雜的次風格類型如City Pop、新迷幻與「蒸氣波」等，當代文化越來越熟練於消化歷史元素來創造新事物。時代錯置已成為一種常態。

網際網路是當代懷舊的重要媒介。在此人類史上最龐大的資料庫中，特定的歷史風格被重新考崛、歸檔、類型化，獲得新的傳播動能。如果傳統定義下的「懷舊」大多指向了親身體驗過的現實，如今身處後網路時代下的我們，更多時候遭遇到的風格化的歷史文本，並讓我們得以輕易緬懷一個未曾經歷過的歷史時刻。

這場論壇從後網路時代下歷史風格的逆襲展開，思考當代文化生產的魂在論。論壇名稱「未來緩慢取消」借用已故文化理論家Mark Fisher的說法，指出當代資本主義社會讓人們逐漸喪失了對「未來宏圖」的想像：上個世紀現代主義方案的「新」，如今被無止境的「升級」所取代。

在緩慢取消的未來之中，我們永遠感到有那麼一點過時，並因落後感到輕微焦慮。如果這創造出一種新型態的懷舊主義，在此之中，我們的文化記憶如何經過混合、轉譯、再創造？背後支撐的感覺結構會是什麼？當曾經的反文化也成懷舊商品的年代，我們又該如何思考反叛的可能？

「C-LAB年度論壇：未來緩慢取消」包含2場專題演講、7場子題講座、3場綜合討論，以及一場前夜祭特別放映活動。共邀集16位國內外講者參與。領域橫跨網路媒介、流行音樂、影視及大眾文化等。3/18–3/19 論壇活動全程中／英同步口譯。更多活動內容詳見活動手冊。

As we have just wrapped up the first 2 decades of the 21st Century, our projections of the future are already loaded with references to the past. From the archival turn and reenactments of history in contemporary art, popular film and television works such as Period Dramas and Imperial Palace Dramas, to diverse subcultures related to popular music genres like City Pop, Neo-psychedelia, and Vaporwave—contemporary cultures are getting better and better at novelties made from historical materials. Anachronism becomes the norm.

The Internet serves as an important medium for present-day nostalgia. Within this biggest database in human history, specific historical trends are excavated, archived, genrefied, and amplified in circulation. Conventionally, “nostalgia” is directed towards a reality that has been personally experienced. However, in a post-internet era, we are more likely to be exposed to stylized historical texts nowadays that easily evoke our nostalgia for historical moments we have never lived.

Starting with comebacks made by historical styles in a post-internet era, this forum reflects on the hauntology of contemporary cultural production. The title of the forum is derived from “the slow cancellation of the future,” the phrase coined by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and was later used by the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, underscores the fact that contemporary capitalist society gradually rids people of their imagination of “the grand vision of the future.” The sense of “newness” proposed by modernism in the last century are now replaced by never-ending “upgrades.”

During the slow cancellation of the future, we feel somewhat outdated all the time, while we also get slightly anxious about such obsolescence. If this is what yields a new type of nostalgia, how are our cultural memories remixed, translated, and re-made amidst the shifts? What is the structure(s) of feeling behind it? When past countercultures, too, have become references to specific time periods for nostalgic commodities, how should we ponder possibilities of defiance? Simultaneous Chinese-English interpretation throughout the forum (3/18–3/19). For more information, please refer to the Event Booklet (release online soon).

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