In response to the expanding discursive battles of COVID-19 at the centre of new global politics, Hector Rodriguez focuses on the disease research as a discursive practice, de-mystifying lay assumptions that scientific knowledge is absolute and objective. From “disease picture” to “world picture” lies a series legitimizing mechanisms that are beyond medicine. 回應 COVID-19 所的牽連的論述戰和全球政治,羅海德博士的「建構疾病」系列針對疾病醫理研究如何建基於特定的前提,打破了外行人以為科學知識絕對而客觀的一廂情願的看法。
Co-immunity is never going to realize as long as the logic of nationalism fueled by xenophobia reigns. How do we act out? 1919年前後困擾歐洲的虛無主義,因著技術加速和全球化被徹底擴散,縮減了全球自身的行為能力,內部的矛盾邏輯變成無法化解。儘管人類仍然希望繼續相信人類的不朽,全球身體免疫系統的危機自2001年 9/11 世貿受襲事件始起,「引發了一種作為永久的例外狀態的免疫反應。」2019年的新冠狀病毒,把「邊界」引回正朝一體化的全球。單一技術主義和文化失效,共同免疫體不再可能。信息戰的內在性變得明顯了,民族國家必須捍衛其物理邊界。100年了,以「現代民族國家和信息戰塑造的虛擬身份」為基調,我們如何擺脫單一技術經濟文化的惡性競爭?共同免疫體真的難以實現?具體的團結如何發生?
許煜博士的「百年危機」勾畫了1919年一次大戰前後到2019年新冠狀病毒全球擴散這100間,如何逐步暴露了全球自體免疫系統的崩壞,單一技術文化頻臨瓦解,把國界重新領回至日益一體化的全球。上下兩部之上。Yuk Hui traces the world’s last 100 years of crisis, from the Nietzschean tragic nothing to the Coronavirus outbreak in 2019 which has triggered a series of immunological reactions, bringing back to the global front-stage the notion and reality of borders. Part 1 of his essay…
有關Zoom的激烈討論至今已冷卻,如今又聽聞中學生要求罷用Zoom作網上學習。為了趕得上,黎肖嫻以這文章的上下集用自己的經驗為Zoom的爭辯寫個讀書報告。沒有純科技問題。如何活在大數據時代?Linda Chiu-han Lai follows her own footprints of using and struggling with Zoom since mid-February, and turns it into an extended reading report to situate her thoughts. This is part 2 to complete: how to live in a big data milieu?
有關Zoom的激烈討論至今已冷卻,如今又聽聞中學生要求罷用Zoom作網上學習。為了趕得上,黎肖嫻以這文章的上下集用自己的經驗為Zoom的爭辯寫個讀書報告。Linda Chiu-han Lai follows her own footprints of using and struggling with Zoom since mid-February, and turns it into an extended reading report to situate her thoughts.