Browsing by Author "Liu, Joyce C. H."

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Aesthetic regimes and artistic interventions: a post-Cold War perspective from East Asia
(2018-01-01)
Liu, Joyce C. H.
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Sakai, Naoki
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社會與文化所
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Institute of Social Research and Culture Studies
Against Agamben: Sovereignty and the Void in the Discourse of the Nation in Early Modern China
(2015-07-01)
Liu, Joyce C. H.
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交大名義發表
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National Chiao Tung University
In Kingdom and Glory, Agamben analyzed the dual perspective of the void, through the metaphor of the empty throne, in the governmental machine in the West. I engage with the ambiguous question of the void with regard to the concept of sovereignty through my reading of two Chinese intellectuals in the late Qing period, Liang Qichao (1872-1929) and Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936). This paper therefore addresses the question of sovereignty and the void in the discourse of nation in early modern China, an issue that is related to the problem of the political economy or the politics of life. I argue that the rhetorical move in Liang Qichao\'s argument for the birth of a new nation and new people was to move from the not-having (?) to the there is (?) in support of the formation of a new nation-state and a restricted logic of sovereignty, while Zhan Taiyan\'s position was to affirm the dynamitic re-composition of the void by constantly negating the given fixated state, and thus proposing a different and radical vision of nation and full sovereignty of the lives of each and every one of the people who are co-inhabiting in the polis.
Beyond borders: trans-local critical pedagogy for inter-asian cultural studies
(1970-01-01)
Liu, Joyce C. H.
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社會與文化所
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Institute of Social Research and Culture Studies
This paper challenges the apparatus of knowledge in the reproduction of the nationalist narrative of historical trauma that leads to the making of exclusive nationalism and unequal citizenship, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. I take the case of the 1965-66 genocide in Indonesia as an example to illustrate how the cultural trauma that took place in the Cold War Era had marked the turning point for follow-up nation-building and the cooperative distortion of the past through the politics of denial. This phenomenon does not happen only in Indonesia but also in other countries in the Northeast and Southeast Asia. The post-event juridical reform after these historical traumas established the foundation of national constitutions and planted the seeds of unequal citizenship in these countries. The legal practices of the post-colonial modern states repeat colonial strategies, and technique of governmentality reproduces itself through the education system at all levels. I want to suggest that to go beyond ideological borders and avoid the vicious circles of knowledge reproduction requires an innovative educational model of trans-local and critical pedagogy in the form of curricular decolonization. It aspires for a type of the university beyond the borders, beyond the walls. Through a trans-local, interdisciplinary, and cross-referencing critical studies, we then can attend to both the local but also the regional and global contexts. I also want to argue that such a model should bridge university and society to assist us in practicing epistemic decolonization to challenge the current cultural consensus.
Exigency of Time: A Conversation with Harry Harootunian and Moishe Postone
(2012-09-01)
Harootunian, Harry
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Postone, Moishe
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Liu, Joyce C. H.
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Murthy, Viren
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Wang, Chih-ming
Force of Psyche: Electricity or Void? Re-examination of the Hermeneutics of the Force of Psyche in Late Qing China
(2014-01-01)
Liu, Joyce C. H.
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社會與文化所
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Institute of Social Research and Culture Studies
Immanentism, Double Abjection, and the Politics of Psyche in (Post) Colonial Taiwan
(2009-09-01)
Liu, Joyce C. H.
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社會與文化所
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Institute of Social Research and Culture Studies