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TIANYU2FM— 对谈未知领域E119. 我所相信的真实是被虚构的？和宗教与文学教授聊聊“相信” ft. 倪湛舸现实和虚拟的边界在哪？我还能否相信被赋予的认同感，和被消费的爱？一篇发表在《自然-通讯》上的研究表明：人每天会产生超过6000个”想法“（https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17255-9）。你有没有想过，这些想法有多少是你自己产生的，又有多少是你所接收到信息赋予你的？你有没有听过高水平的辩论赛，辩手的一席话似乎就足以让观众的想法180度转向。那么什么是真实？为什么宗教的世界观对于信徒来说切实存在，而对于无神论者又难以共情？对于一个人来说是真实的东西，另一个人看来却仿佛可笑？你有没有喜欢上过一个电影、动漫、游戏中的人物，觉得他们就在自己身边？或者对一个品牌产生好感甚至忠诚，觉得这是自己向往的生活方式？这又和信徒有什么区别？现实与虚构的边界似乎没有我们想象的那么清晰。而这些思辨似乎都会指向一个问题，”相信“是什么？本期节目，我们有幸邀请到了弗吉尼亚理工大学宗教与文化系副教授，倪湛舸老师对谈，来和她一起从人文学者的角度聊聊现实和虚构的边界在哪里？我们又是如何“相信”的？本期你会听到倪湛舸弗吉尼亚理工大学宗教与文化系副教授芝加哥大学宗教与文学博士、前哈佛大学神学院客座研究员著有学术专著The Pagan Writes Back，并创作出版过多部诗集、随笔集，以及历史小说《莫须有》近期研究关注中国宗教与网络小说李天宇大白媒介研究者（主要兴趣：科技史、动画与电子游戏）李天域 Jack 主业有三家公司，主要在服装行业，目前年营收超过千万在这段对话中，我们从事实信念、虚构想象、宗教信仰这三种经常叠加在一起的”相信“是什么开始聊起，聊到了：宗教和科学控制人们认识世界的方式？商业、品牌、文化作品等如何通过“相信”来控制你的钱包、劳动、认知和爱？资本主义的新精神是什么？为什么情绪变成了商业追逐的新目标？我们在购买的到底是商品，还是某种想象？节目的最后，倪教授探讨了修真小说所反映的中国人对于”升级“的痴迷可能是导致内卷的原因之一，以及虚构背后人们渴望善恶有报的愿景所具有的真实的力量。本期节目对我们来说完全可以用醍醐灌顶来形容，相信你也一定能有所收获。那就请你和我们一起加入这场关于真实、虚构，以及”相信“的游戏吧！结语天宇：倪老师一直是我非常敬仰的学者，她总是能用精准的语言把复杂的理论和概念解释清楚，相信这一点你也一定感同身受。就像我们在节目里说的，尽管我们的业余时间、我们的理想和爱或许都已经成为了被资本剥削的对象，但我们仍然有无法被剥夺的情动，这是无比珍贵的。我正在制作（录制和书写中）的，和你正在消费的，都是一档经过封装的节目。它固然需要在数字内容的海洋中与无数节目争夺流量，但也正因为此，我们聊天时许多快乐与思考的瞬间才能够超越当时的时空和我们自身的存在，能有一些和你产生共鸣的可能。因为这真实存在的力量来源于我们在虚拟空间的交互，所以我们仍然可以选择相信。本期节目制作王一山（制片人）在洋（节目剪辑） Alan（节目运营） TIANYU2FM的理念：每期对谈有价值的声音我们是天宇和天域，是挚友，也是一起求知的伙伴。这是一档为了开拓眼界，走出自我局限而设立的播客，我们通过与人的对谈来与未知的领域及知识互动。主持人简介天域 | 杰激（声音偏高）：服装电商公司创始人、UnDeR20合伙人（小红书：李天域 Jack）天宇 | 大白（声音偏低）：从事中日流行文化与媒介研究（文章见于澎湃新闻私家历史、网易新闻历史频道等）扩展阅读（由倪湛舸教授提供）关于模仿、宗教信仰、玄学 Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts Neil Van Leeuwen, Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity Theodor Adorno, The Stars Down to Earth John and Jean Comaroff, “Ocuult Economies, Revisited” Christopher Patridge, “Occulture and Everyday Enchantment” 关于创意资本主义 Brian Moeran and Timothy de Waal Malefyt ed., Magical Capitalism: Enchantment, Spells, and Occult Practices in Contemporary Economies Guiseppe Cocco and Barbara Szaniecki ed., Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity: Radicalities and Alterities 关于小说、虚构性、历史小说 Gallagher, Catherine. "The Rise of Fictionality". The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, edited by Franco Moretti, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 336-363. Zeitlin, Judith T.. "Xiaoshuo". The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, edited by Franco Moretti, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 249-261. Saba Mahmood, “Azazeel and the Politics of Historical Fiction in Egypt,”Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 265–284. 关于修真小说 Ni, Zhange. 2020. "Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation) Fantasy: Science, Religion, and the Novels of Magic/Superstition in Contemporary China" Religions 11, no. 1: 25. Ni, Zhange. 2020. ““REIMAGINING DAOIST ALCHEMY, DECOLONIZING TRANSHUMANISM: THE FANTASY OF IMMORTALITY CULTIVATION IN TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY CHINA”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 55(3), 748–771 2025-03-252h 00

IJNotes: An IJNet podcastStudent Journalism 101: Holding institutions accountableIn 2020, Harvard College’s student newspaper, The Crimson, broke a story about sexual harassment allegations against three professors in the anthropology department. The article garnered a strong reaction from the student body, leading to student protests criticizing the university's complicity in the matter. It brought the anthropology department under scrutiny, as well as Harvard’s practices of handling such complaints, generating calls to reform the university’s sexual misconduct recourse practices. In June 2024, John Comaroff, who was implicated in the article — retired without emeritus status, an honor that the university strips only in rare cases. This work...2025-02-1330 min

Harvard NewstalkThe UnabomberWinner, 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards for Narrative PodcastListen to The Unabomber: The Man, The Myth, and The Manifesto: https://unabomber.transistor.fm.This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, a preview of Fifteen Minutes Magazine's 50-minute audio scrutiny, The Unabomber: The Man, The Myth, and The Manifesto. Also in this episode, Rahem D. Hamid '25 and Elias J. Schisgall '25 join host Frank S. Zhou '26 to share faculty opinions on the controversy surrounding sexual harassment allegations against Harvard professor John L. Comaroff as well as perspectives on Title IX policies...2023-04-2517 min

Krystal Kyle & FriendsEpisode 109 Audio: Ken RothKen Roth is joining the show this week to discuss how he lost a fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School for reporting on human rights abuses. What Ken, the “godfather of human rights,” experienced when the Kennedy School found out about his criticism of Israel is a powerful lesson in the repression of dissent at elite institutions.Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Steven Pinker: Harvard refuses to remove these people from its payroll regardless of their extremely public links to Jeffrey Epstein, allegations of sexual abuse, the list goes on and on. Students recently walked out of a Harvard clas...2023-01-291h 32

Learning on the JobLesson #31: The Future is WildUntamed, unfettered, unrestrained, un...likely to be pleasant. It's a jungle out there, and this week the duo dive into the thick of a harassment scandal over at ::ahem:: that one school...But in all fairness, they are certainly not the only ones. And moments like these only seem to add to the conversation about tenure, its future viability, and what becomes of this thing called higher education without it. Not to be outdone, Florida is Florida-ing again. It's Don't Ask, Don't Tell for the gen z set and we're decidedly not here for it. Wh...2022-02-171h 01 $Zora\'s Daughters$ Zora's DaughtersS2, E10 Entitled IXHappy Birthday to our wonderful co-host Alyssa! We're back for our second episode of the semester to talk about hegemony, institutional power, and the academic hierarchies that fail to protect Black queer and trans women. What's the Word? Hegemony. We give a brief explanation of hegemony and how it comes into being. What We're Reading “Black Lesbians—Who Will Fight for Our Lives but Us?”: Navigating Power, Belonging, Labor, Resistance, and Graduate Student Survival in the Ivory Tower by S. Tay Glover. We discuss our experiences with pedagogies of accommodation (Chandra Mohanty) and being feminist killjo...2022-02-161h 13

Chaise LoungeOverly Sensitive Drug Tests Criminalize ChildbirthWelcome back Chaise Lounge readers! I look forward to speaking with you each Thursday. This week we will take a look at a few big stories including the sexual harassment scandal brewing at Harvard and the criminalization of eating a poppyseed muffin while pregnant. As always, if you like what you read here, please like and share.Hot off the presses! Senate passes bill outlawing forced arbitration agreementsThis afternoon, the Senate approved a bill that ends the practice of forced arbitration for claims of sexual harassment and abuse claims. Introduced by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand...2022-02-1110 min

What Else Are We Mad At?Paris Hilton In Conversation With A Seal | Episode 13You know what sucks? Professors abusing their power, celebrities shilling for obvious pyramid schemes and overtly racist jokes. You know what really sucks; Q's Oscar predictions that have aged like milk.Find us on Twitter and Instagram, or visit us at boshemiamagazine.com.38 Harvard Faculty Sign Open Letter Questioning Results of Misconduct Investigations into Prof. John Comaroff https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/4/comaroff-sanctions-open-letter/Line Goes Up | The Problem With NFTshttps://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9gMapping the celebrity NFT complex...2022-02-101h 04

A Correction PodcastJean and John Comaroff on Theory From the SouthJohn Comaroff is Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology at Harvard University. Before joining the Department of African and African American Studies, John Comaroff was the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is also an Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. His current research in South Africa is on crime, policing, and the workings of the state, on democracy and difference, and on postcolonial politics. His authored and edited books include, w...2021-10-1300 min $Home Owner\'s Institute$ Home Owner's InstituteHome Owner's Institute- John Comaroff-"This isn't me telling you, it's us figuring it out"John Comaroff is an owner with experience renovating in Chicago, Boston, England, and South Africa. John and his wife Jean are both professors of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology, at Harvard University.I met John in 2012, when we helped him and his wife renovate and early 19oo's home that they had just purchased while relocating from Chicago to Cambridge, Massachusetts.In this conversation, John talks about the sociology of why people engage in the design and construction process. We then talk about the relationship between the owner and their builder and what can build...2020-10-2933 min

Decolonization in Action PodcastS2E7 How do you decolonize everything?In this episode, edna bonhomme interviews Mihir about the Black Lives Matter movement, climate justice, the history of resistance in the Global South, the German left, and the power of internationalism. Mihir is a researcher with the group Anthropology of Global Inequalities at the University of Bayreuth where he also teaches courses in political anthropology. His current research project deals with social movements, race, class, and activism in St. Louis. Follow Mihir @mihirzabaan on Twitter, or Mihir.Sharma@uni-bayreuth.de This episode was edited and produced by edna bonhomme.Music by MattiaGiovanetti and NALALIONGIRL from Freesounds.org through Creative Commons...2020-05-2735 min

Amicus RadioBamako, d’Abderrahmane SissakoRésumé de l’épisode Bamako est un film sorti en 2006 réalisé Abderrahmane Sissako. C’est l’histoire d’un procès, un faux procès, mais aussi d’une confrontation de deux cultures : le monde occidental avec ses banques et ses valeurs économiques et un monde resté plus traditionnel. Il s’agit d’un procès fictif : ce procès improbable oppose les institutions monétaires internationales et le peuple africain lésé par ces institutions. Invités Nathalie Goedert, Historienne du droit et Maître de conférence à l’Université Paris Sud. Elle a récemment publié avec...2017-06-1539 min

University of Chicago Human Rights Program Distinguished Lecturer SeriesJohn Comaroff's Introduction of Zackie AchmatJohn Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series.2006-03-3100 min

CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]John Comaroff's Introduction of Zackie AchmatJohn Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series.2006-03-3109 min

The World Beyond the Headlines from the University of ChicagoJohn Comaroff's Introduction of Zackie AchmatJohn Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series.2006-03-3109 min