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Foreword: Forms of Life, Human and Non-human
(英語學系, 2015-03-??) Han-yu Huang
Risk, Fear and Immunity:Reinventing the Political in the Age of Biopolitics*
(英語學系, 2011-03-??) Han-yu Huang
As an update of his continual concern for contemporary risk society since 1980s, Ulrich Beck’s latest work World at Risk (2009) alerts us to the deterritorializing effects of global risk on national, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries. On an increasingly global scale, risk mixes up natives and foreigners, while risk calculus connects natural, technical and social sciences, and incorporates almost all aspects of everyday life. Fear,accordingly, spreads out as a kind of carrier that binds so-called global,multicultural civil society; it even prospers as a lucrative risky business. Such an era has witnessed a structural transformation of the roles of the state andvarious biopolitical institutions, of life itself, of subjectivity and agency. Drawing on Žižek’s theory of ideology critique and radical ethics and politics, this paper firstly presents a critical survey of contemporary biopolitics, focusing on how health needs contagion as its uncanny double to define and of life flourish with uncertainty and administer our body and life. All of these will be discussed in relation to theoretical accounts of the contemporary risk society and culture of fear to critically look at how risk and fear function as depoliticizing biopolitical instruments for disavowing social antagonism. Theorists such as Judith Butler and Roberto Esposito caution us against the (auto)immunitary biopolitical logic and call for vulnerability, precariousness and finitude to be adopted as the ethical principles for a “positive” biopolitics, while this paper will query whether human subjects are victimized and depoliticized in their discourses. The final part of this paper will turn to Žižek’s recent formulation of radical ethics and politics to address the possibility of reinventing the political in contemporary biopolitics.
The Crime of Indistinction?
(英語學系, 2012-03-??) Han-yu Huang
The undead is a crime against the religious and the sacred; it always troubles our received topologies and distinctions between body and soul, life and death, culture and nature, the human and the nonhuman, animate and inanimate,organic and inorganic, etc. It has always been preoccupying, or haunting, writers and thinkers in the fields of philosophy, ethics, theology, and literature. Especially in contemporary biopolitical discourse, where the conditions andessence of life are fervently debated, problematized, and rethought, the undeadcomes to the fore and calls for our critical attention. This paper begins with abrief critical review of Hannah Arendt’s contribution to biopolitical discourse.By way of some psychoanalytic perspectives, I explicate how the “strangelogic of the undead” works in such signature Agambenian categories as the“threshold” and “zone of indistinction,” and in the context of the saturation oflife in the political field. Then, I turn to the homo sacer and the Muselmannwho, as figures of the undead, inhabit the threshold of political life and barelife, and embody the zero degree of humanity as beings that have beendeprived of human communitarian and identitarian registers, while opening asite where new ethical material might appear. The last part of this papercarries the logic of the undead a step further in order to address Agamben’sintervention in contemporary theological theories, and his contribution to thepolitics of emancipation and redemption through his revitalization of Paul andmessianic thinking.
The Crime of Indistinction?
(英語學系, 2012-03-??) Han-yu Huang
The undead is a crime against the religious and the sacred; it always troubles our received topologies and distinctions between body and soul, life and death, culture and nature, the human and the nonhuman, animate and inanimate,organic and inorganic, etc. It has always been preoccupying, or haunting, writers and thinkers in the fields of philosophy, ethics, theology, and literature. Especially in contemporary biopolitical discourse, where the conditions andessence of life are fervently debated, problematized, and rethought, the undeadcomes to the fore and calls for our critical attention. This paper begins with abrief critical review of Hannah Arendt’s contribution to biopolitical discourse.By way of some psychoanalytic perspectives, I explicate how the “strangelogic of the undead” works in such signature Agambenian categories as the“threshold” and “zone of indistinction,” and in the context of the saturation oflife in the political field. Then, I turn to the homo sacer and the Muselmannwho, as figures of the undead, inhabit the threshold of political life and barelife, and embody the zero degree of humanity as beings that have beendeprived of human communitarian and identitarian registers, while opening asite where new ethical material might appear. The last part of this papercarries the logic of the undead a step further in order to address Agamben’sintervention in contemporary theological theories, and his contribution to thepolitics of emancipation and redemption through his revitalization of Paul andmessianic thinking.
Trauma, Paranoia, and Ecological Fantasy in Don DeLillo's Underworld
(英語學系, 2009-03-??) Han-yu Huang
「看哪，我在燃燒！」：論後現代恐怖文類中的惡童及超我
(2013) 陳柏蓉; Bo-rong Chen
　　本論文試圖以精神分析理論論及「壞種」的比喻作為後現代恐怖文類中的魔。本文援引紀傑克的精神分析理論，解讀當代的惡童及後現代情景，認為後現代恐怖文類中的惡童目睹律法的僭越將跨越莫比爾氏環而成為超我，這正是恐怖文類中極致的僭越。如此的僭越將點出後伊底帕斯時代的恐怖：當伊底帕斯之父和快感之父結合，主體將喪失定錨。惡童的超我及死亡趨力勾連出後伊底帕斯的結果，並導致他們的魔化。最後，本文希冀能找出一條走出後伊底帕斯的路，點出死亡趨力能推翻社會符號系統的境界，正是主體重生的契機。　　本文共分三章。第一章將概述後現代性及後現代恐怖文類的詭祕(uncanny)關係。第二章探討紀傑克理論下的後現代場景，以此闡釋本文分析框架的重要概念，並著重後伊底帕斯化的主體。最後，第三章爬梳《壞種》及《沉默之丘》系列裡關於超我化的文本證據。在《壞種》中，Rhoda的貪婪顛覆浪漫時代兒童的論述，並展現原我之惡（id evil），但原我之惡的力量亦來自於超我。在《沉默之丘》系列裡，Alessa的復仇充滿了超我及死亡趨力的色彩。本章結尾比較惡童與校園槍擊案，質疑「惡童」的幻想（fantasy）無非是後現代追求真實界的（偽）激情。本文的結語以Heather的成熟為例，重新陳明面對大他者匱乏的倫理策略。本文一方面試圖提出，超越完美的大他者幻見（fantasy）的方式，另一方面亦試圖提出擔負生命責任的倫理態度。
超越無止盡深淵:歐康納<智血>怪誕現象之精神分析式閱讀
(2012) 陳映妤; Ying-yu Chen
本篇論文以佛蘭莉．歐康納《智血》為例，輔以紀傑克精神分析，閱讀歐康納宗教觀裡的怪誕現象。論文分成三章：第一章介紹怪誕現象在文學和藝術的呈現方式，並指出怪誕作品裡都有讓人無法理解的成分（incomprehensible element）。歐康納小說裡角色的怪誕崇拜來自對此成分的著迷；此無法言喻的成分也模糊了歐康納宗教觀中善與惡的界定。第二章用紀傑克精神分析，說明《智血》中天主教教徒藉由「罪惡」此主導能指（master signifier）的運作，建構教義並依附於天主教之下。第二章也指出無法理解的成分操控「罪惡」在教義裡的運作；因此，教徒們奉行教義之餘，依然享樂和從事金錢交易。第三章用紀傑克精神分析中的真實界（the real）剖析此無法理解的成分，和歐康納的怪誕宗教觀。真實界滲透象徵界（the symbolic order）；怪誕現象在幻見（fantasy）的運作下，抵抗真實層的介入。《智血》中黑茲（Haze）和以諾（Enoch）的瘋狂著迷和強制行為都是為了否定並逃避來自真實層的耶穌。他們越否定真實界，越被幻見所操控，然後越困在由享樂、懲罰和罪惡感交織的無止盡深淵。本論文最後提出超越無止盡深淵的可能性。歐康納的天主教救贖和紀傑克的超越幻見皆指出象徵界的死亡（symbolic death）為超越深淵的方式。
雙重易裝：梁祝易裝劇場中的酷兒操演
(2011) 陳瑄; Chan Shuen
　　本論文以變裝為中心，探討民間故事梁祝所呈現的性別混亂和酷兒潛在性。不少梁祝的現代改編都對同志議題加以著墨，視祝英台之易裝為同性戀的暗喻，因此，不難在其中發現將易裝和同性戀硬性掛鉤的傾向。針對這一點，本篇論文強調易裝的矛盾性質，並質疑認定易裝與同性戀必然有關的看法，在以易裝（而非同性戀）為重心的前提下，尋求突顯梁祝之酷兒面向的其他可能性。本論文提出中國戲曲中的反串傳統可把梁祝的酷兒性發揮至極至，當文本梁祝的內在易裝與戲曲梁祝的外在反串在舞台上結合時，會產生一個「雙重易裝」結構。本文借用茱蒂‧巴特勒的性別操演理論，討論該雙重易裝結構作為酷兒表演如何在舞台上下建構性別，不只強化了梁祝的酷兒性，同時在反串演員的身上製造性別混亂，塑造其延伸至台下的酷兒形象。　　本篇論文共有三章。第一章探討梁祝戲曲中的雙重易裝結構，以及該結構如何深化梁祝的酷兒面向。第二章以香港電影《魂魄唔齊》（2002）為例，分析其中所呈現的雙重易裝結構，以及反串表演如何把反串演員塑造成為酷兒角色。第三章討論反串表演在反串演員離開舞台後的延伸，以及透過反串表演建立第三性別的可能性。
餘音裊裊: 從精神分析論誌異怪物想像與當代哥德金屬樂
(2011) 邱楷雯; Kai-wen Chiu
透過拉岡/齊澤克式精神分析探討當代哥德金屬音樂中的聲音，本文企圖連結誌異研究與後現代哥德次文化。以模棱兩可和毫無節制著稱，誌異文學在本文中被視為啟蒙主義的必然產物，一種精神分析中的似是而非的幻想（fantasy）。在現代與後現代中，誌異怪物都扮演著真實怪物的代替品；然而這些代替品往往證明真正的恐怖與替代的區分是多模糊。儘管後現代的怪物熱潮不免物神化、寵物化了誌異怪物，想像怪物與真實怪物間不斷的波動依舊證明了誌異的模稜兩可超越後現代的快想幻界，更非後現代對他者的理想化可以限制住。從齊澤克式精神分析談聲音的理論基礎，本文進一步闡述「餘音」（the object voice）：餘音對於身體與語言都是陌異的核心（the extimate），徹底挑戰了主體的完整性，以及人、動物、機器之間的區別。哥德金屬的詭譎音效產生了在崇高與怪異間游移的餘音；餘音取悅、陶醉，但亦驚嚇、使人厭惡、甚至導致主體的瓦解。臨界（liminal）的餘音也表達出哥德金屬的政治/社會/文化批判。做為內化差異（otherness）的核心，它提供了一套非建立在理想化與暴力式排他的主體與他者的關係。哥德金屬中震慄的聲音/餘音，從此角度看來，不僅再度證明了誌異的模稜兩可特質，更展現哥德次文化對於後現代中針對他者的非理性暴力的一種倫理回應。
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(英語學系, 2015-05-??) Han-yu Huang
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(英語學系, 2015-05-??) Han-yu Huang