The Covid-19 pandemic made the liveness of the social world readily apparent. Everyday rhythms and routines were, for many, upended and new and uncertain ones were rapidly and repeatedly re-made. A plethora of intense and flattened feelings – from anxiety to depression to pleasure – were generated. This article considers our collaborative research project on everyday experiences of time during the early stages of the pandemic in the UK through a focus on liveness. The research included commissioning a Mass Observation (MO) directive; holding Feel Tanks with university and school students where participants wrote reflective diaries, had collective discussions and made artworks; and a co-produced artist response to the research. We build on ‘live methods’ work to explicate the significance of temporality, the present and affect to understandings of liveness and the pandemic. We make three specific contributions that focus on the methodological, conceptual and analytical dimensions of our research. First, we examine the methodological pivots involved in researching a live phenomenon as it was unfolding. Second, we develop a sociological understanding of liveness by discussing recent cultural theory on presents and affect. Third, we analyse the feelings of and about the present articulated by research participants, focusing on: stuckness and suspension; repetition, drifting and boredom; and jolts, jars and glitches. In conclusion, we argue that a sociological interest in liveness infuses many aspects of our research, and signals possibilities for attuning to the possibilities of the present for other kinds of social worlds.

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呈现感受，感受存在：Covid-19 大流行期间对时间和感觉的积极性研究

Covid-19 大流行使社交世界的活跃性显而易见。对许多人来说，日常的节奏和例行公事被颠倒了，新的和不确定的节奏和例行公事被迅速而反复地重新制定。产生了大量强烈而平淡的感觉——从焦虑到抑郁再到快乐。本文通过关注现场性，考虑了我们在英国大流行早期阶段对时间日常体验的合作研究项目。研究包括委托一项大规模观察 （MO） 指令;与大学生和中学生一起举办 Feel Tanks，参与者撰写反思日记、进行集体讨论并制作艺术品;以及联合制作的艺术家对研究的回应。我们以 “live methods” 工作为基础，阐明时间性、当下和影响对理解 live 和 pandemic 的重要性。我们做出了三个具体的贡献，专注于我们研究的方法论、概念和分析维度。首先，我们研究了研究正在发生的现场现象所涉及的方法论支点。其次，我们通过讨论最近关于礼物和情感的文化理论，发展了对活体的社会学理解。第三，我们分析了研究参与者对当下的感受和对当下的感受，重点关注：停滞和悬停;重复、漂泊和无聊;以及颠簸、震动和故障。总之，我们认为，社会学对活泼的兴趣渗透到我们研究的许多方面，并标志着与当下的可能性相适应其他类型社会世界的可能性。