Nomadic Voice: Internet Guerrilla, Affect, and Rhizomatic Knowledge Production in Fanpai Film Criticism Podcast
摘要
This study examines Fanpai Film Criticism (Hereafter, Fanpai), a Chinese film criticism podcast, through the theoretical lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of nomadism, affect, and rhizomatic thinking. As a heterogeneous, nomadic discourse continuously entering cyberspace while emerging from individual experiences, Fanpai represents a significant form of cultural resistance and knowledge production within China’s restrictive digital media landscape. By analyzing the podcast’s tactical operations across digital territories, its generation of intensive affective encounters that exceed individual subjectivity, and its construction of alternative film historiographies that challenge representational models, this research reveals how podcasting can serve as a transformative medium that reconfigures relationships between individual experience, collective knowledge, and political resistance. Fanpai’s practice demonstrates that resistance lies not in defending fixed territories but in cultivating nomadic assemblages capable of continuous reconfiguration and creative survival. By positioning voice as a mediator between cinematic representation and social reality, Fanpai reveals podcasting’s transformative potential for challenging traditional academic knowledge production and contributing new dimensions to film and media geography through sonic spatial practices.