【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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Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]
A note on the postcolonial implosion of the Anthropocene and the Virocene | Chun-Mei Chuang
【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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【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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Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]
When Carps Can’t Breathe in Water: On Tawada Yōko’s Planetary Musings in Corona Times | Christophe Thouny
【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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【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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【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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Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]
Exposing Cruelty: The Pandemic at the Intersection of Biopolitics and Racial Capitalism | Lok Siu
【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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【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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【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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Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]
Non-linear Social and Political Development under Disasters: The Case of Taiwan in the Covid-19 Pandemic | Dung-Sheng Chen
【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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【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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【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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Society Must Go On! [COVID-19 issue]
On the Threshold of Digital (Post) Modernity? | Oscar V. Campomanes
【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 …