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Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]

    Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]

    Introduction to the Inaugural Issue | Li-Chun Hsiao

    by Critical Asia 2021-01-03

    【by Li-Chun Hsiao, Dec. 2020】 Truth to be told: When we first prepared to put into practice the idea of the Critical Asia Archives publication platform, which had been years in the making, we never ex …

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    A note on the postcolonial implosion of the Anthropocene and the Virocene | Chun-Mei Chuang

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Chun-Mei Chuang, Dec. 2020】 Living in the Covid-19 crisis, we are invited to rethink the micropolitics of boundaries or the politics of microboundaries. Nowadays, it is almost a cliché to…

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    Virus-ex-machina and Theory | Woosung Kang

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Woosung Kang, Dec. 2020】 The covid-19 pandemic came as an extraordinary shock, but we have been frequently warned of the inevitable arrival of the disaster. Why then are we greatly surprised when …

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    When Carps Can’t Breathe in Water: On Tawada Yōko’s Planetary Musings in Corona Times | Christophe Thouny

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Christophe Thouny, Dec. 2020】 The Japanese writer Tawada Yōko suggested in a recent publication that the Coronavirus could be ‘the perfect metaphor for the ideal world citizen.’ In this short essa…

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    Elusive and Ubiquitous Stupidity | Nobutaka Otobe

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Nobutaka Otobe, Dec. 2020】 Alongside of the rise of populist leaders in the last few of years, it has become increasingly popular to describe the actions of politicians and voters as “stupid”. For…

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    Did Somebody Say Stupidity? | Li-Chun Hsiao

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Li-Chun Hsiao, Dec. 2020】 Amidst the first waves of massive Covid-19 casualties across Europe (particularly in Italy and Spain) and shortly thereafter, in parts of the Unites States, the overridin…

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    Exposing Cruelty: The Pandemic at the Intersection of Biopolitics and Racial Capitalism | Lok Siu

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Lok Siu, Dec. 2020】 Comedian Trevor Noah noted on June 25, 2020 that “It appears America isn’t just dealing with a deadly strain of coronavirus. It’s also dealing with a deadly strain of stupidity…

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    Pandemics and Protests | Bregham Dalgliesh

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Bregham Dalgliesh, Dec. 2020】 As the world emerges haphazardly from a state of emergency that locks down our primordial freedom of movement, we might take a moment to imagine what it is like to li…

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    Surveillance and Resistance | Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Dec. 2020】 The meaning of privacy is obscure, even not only in its daily usage but also in its geographical reception. For instance, I found a sign in Delhi’s metro station, w…

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    Non-linear Social and Political Development under Disasters: The Case of Taiwan in the Covid-19 Pandemic | Dung-Sheng Chen

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Dung-Sheng Chen, Dec. 2020】 The Covid-19 pandemic has threatened people’s lives and freedom all over the world. Until December 6th, 2020, the infected cases are 66.5 million and the death toll is …

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    Neoliberal Logic and Covid-19 in Japan | Satofumi Kawamura

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Satofumi Kawamura, Dec. 2020】 So far, it seems that the Japanese government’s policy of preventing the infection of Covid-19 has not been pursued in the way of high “techno-medical despotism”, as …

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    A Speed Boat to the End | Kwai-Cheung Lo

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Kwai-Cheung Lo, Dec. 2020】 Just three days after my university has switched the teaching mode from online to face-to-face, we were told that an undergraduate student has tested positive for COVID-…

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    On the Threshold of Digital (Post) Modernity? | Oscar V. Campomanes

    by Critical Asia 2020-12-31

    【by Oscar V. Campomanes, Dec. 2020】 As elsewhere, the notion of a new normal has strangely taken deep roots in the Philippines and in public discourses here about the state of emergency, if not exception, that …

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