Affective (non)sense-making: Digital nonsense, precarity, and the affective rhetoric of “Crazy Literature”
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Published online on June 29, 2026
Abstract
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This study investigates “Crazy Literature” (Fāfēng Wénxué 发疯文学) as a form of digital nonsense through which young people engage in affective sense-making about work-related precarity in China. Emerging from earlierE’gaospoof culture and subaltern tropes ...
This study investigates “Crazy Literature” (Fāfēng Wénxué 发疯文学) as a form of digital nonsense through which young people engage in affective sense-making about work-related precarity in China. Emerging from earlierE’gaospoof culture and subaltern tropes ...