{"id":731,"date":"2022-07-31T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caarchives.org\/?p=731"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T08:33:19","slug":"taiwan-2022-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caarchives.org\/taiwan-2022-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction | Hsiao-hung Chang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><strong>\u3010<\/strong><em>by<\/em><strong> Hsiao-hung Chang, June 2022\u3011<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crises brought by the COVID-19 pandemic prompt the development of different types of vaccines at an unprecedented rate. We witness that how the vaccination coverage ratio has become an indicator of the country\u2019s advancement in healthcare system, government efficiency and national income. We also learn about the skepticisms, debates and even wild imaginations brought by vaccination in terms of efficacy, safety, freedom of choice and the possible dangerous or revolutionary exchange of genetic materials between humans and viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six articles by Taiwan scholars are composed here under the topic of \u201cVaccine: Molar and Molecular.\u201d The first article, \u201cTaiwan\u2019s Problematic Shift to \u2018Living with Virus\u2019 Covid Policy in 2022: Its Recent Historical and Social Processes,\u201d by Daiwie Fu criticizes the hasty decision of Taiwan\u2019s Covid-19 pandemic control from the zero-COVID strategy to the \u201cliving with the virus\u201d policy. It explores the historical and political formation of Taiwan\u2019s CECC (Central Epidemic Control Center) and foregrounds how the DPP administration and CECC decision become authoritarian for lack of public debates and of attention to the socially (not merely medically) high risk people. Instead of blaming biopolitical administration, the second article, \u201cThe Uncanny Logic of the COVID-19 Coronavirus,\u201d by Han-yu Cory Huang deals also with the \u201cliving with the virus\u201d model as a global issue and its \u201creturning to normality\u201d ideology from both the neo-liberal and left-wing sides by advocating a going beyond the structured distinction between normality and state of exception. It explores creatively the \u201cpost-pandemic temporality\u201d as an uncanny futurity haunting us to live not only in the \u201calways-already-thereness\u201d of the virus and its ongoing variations, but also in the undead, chronic time of the pandemic. The third article, \u201cThe Controversies Over Lockdowns for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Toward an Open Society,\u201d by Yulin Lee also provides an affirmative view of biopolitics on the policy of \u201cco-existing with the virus\u201d recently enacted in Taiwan by posing it in contrast to the strict lockdown, especially in light of the recent Shanghai lockdown, in China. By taking the contrast as the one between two different modes of biopolitics, instead of the dichotomized regime types of the democratic and the authoritarian, it successfully maps out the deployment of scientist knowledge, affection management, information technology, and the vaccine types involved in its compare-and-contrast framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Fu\u2019s concern of the Medigan Covid-19 vaccine (MVC) as a MIT (Made in Taiwan) product which uses the new methodology of \u201cimmuno-bridging\u201d to skip the phase three clinical trial, and Lee\u2019s comparison of the \u201clive attenuated vaccines\u201d used in China and the mRNA vaccine chiefly used in Taiwan, the fourth article, \u201cDifferential Immunity as Our Responsibility,\u201d by Wan-shuan Lin explores further the rumors and fears of having their body magnetized or DNA altered after getting vaccinated. Instead of promising the safety of the vaccines as assured repeatedly by health officials and medical experts, it challenges the myth of \u201cvaccination-without-genetic-communication\u201d in an attempt to re-conceptualize immunity as a dynamic process that leads to a rethinking of intra-active responsibly. Lin\u2019s emphasis on \u201cagential realism\u201d and \u201cintra-activity\u201d proposed by Karan Barad is continued to be carried forward beautifully in the fifth article, \u201cDiffractive Immunity: Remember the Future for Me,\u201d by Chun-Mei Chuang, alone with the Deleuzian \u201crhizome.\u201d It highlights further Barad\u2019s elaboration on \u201cdiffraction\u201d as the reconfiguration of differentiating-entangling patternings and thus takes infection and immunity as micropolitical events and symbiotic assemblages in non-linear trans-species coevolution. Also taking the Deleuzian \u201crhizome,\u201d Barad\u2019s \u201cintra-action\u201d and immunological memory as points of departure, the last article in this special issue, \u201cOn Becoming-Molecular: Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and Negotiation,\u201d by Chung-Hsiung Lai attempts to interlace the concepts of Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida by taking \u201cbecoming-molecular\u201d in the post-pandemic time as a deconstructive aporia between humans and viruses. While examining vaccination as a protective mode of becoming-others at the bio-medical level, it takes autoimmunity as a defensive mode of self-destruction, currently triggering at local and global levels various kinds of fake news, racist violence and paranoiac conspiracy theories, and asks for, instead of a total solution, an urgent negotiation in-between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though taking \u201cmolar and molecular\u201d as its sub-title, this special issue on vaccine is not limited to the Deleuzo-Guattarain theory. The six articles cover a wide range of philosophers, thinkers and scientists, such as Agamben, Barad, Derrida, Haraway, Margulis and Sagan, \u017di\u017eek et al., and shift contingently among biological, biomedical, biopolitical, and ethical levels. They help to destabilize any boundary between self\/nonself, human\/nonhuman, normality\/exception and here-now\/there-then and can be read collectively as their response and response-ability to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic that is still extensively and intensively affecting Taiwan, East Asia and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-css-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#a79703;color:#a79703\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AUTHOR<\/strong><br>Hsiao-hung Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-css-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#a79703;color:#a79703\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3010by Hsiao-hung Chang, June 2022\u3011 The crises brought by the COVID-19 pandemic prompt the development of different types of vaccines at an unprecedented rate. 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