《罔兩問景II:中間物》新書出版 Book title: Penumbrae Query Shadow II: Thing-in-between
書名:罔兩問景II:中間物
作者:丁乃非、白瑞梅、李思齊、林文玲、林建廷、林純德、張馨文、黃詠光、劉人鵬
主編:丁乃非、劉人鵬、張馨文、黃詠光
ISBN 9789865470487
出版日:2022/12
內容介紹
情感、性、非人
在不同類別、不同結構、不同型態下
成為「眾罔兩」共同體想像,並與中間物一起作為方法
「罔兩」,原本的意涵(影外微陰)即諭示雙重邊緣位置(邊緣的邊緣),是被層層稀釋的(類)主體。其指涉之難,即造就了互為參照之不可能。本書各篇文章延展了十五年前《罔兩問景:酷兒閱讀攻略》的諸多歷史、思考的限制,重訪懸宕的命題,指認面目依舊模糊的各種存在;因為「罔兩」的影外微陰之義,已不在狹義的性少數,而是擴及到更多無以名狀之物——與人為主體的妖、妾同行的,還有物質的罔兩(道路、核廢料、斷指、科幻文體),情感的罔兩(負面性、控白、古老鬼魂)。本書繼續開展罔兩的發問,在「晷景遷馳,分陰不駐」(語出章太炎〔1869-1936〕)與「凡物之非此非彼者」(語出嚴復〔1854-1921〕)罔兩寓言閱讀所提供的難以捕捉的時空位置,重新反思亞洲現代性與其思想的「中間物」軌跡。
以「眾罔兩」作為方法,重要的在於「問」
即思考、叩問邊緣的能量形式
本書試圖把魯迅來自尼采的「中間物」概念喻說放在殖民-歷史-地理的認識向度中,作為一個啟導性與中介性的概念,集結九位作者各自的九篇論文,共同探索亞洲當下批判性知識生產的可能性。各篇文章展開的問題意識,似乎一環扣著一環,而可以「中間物」作為環中,以輻輳知識生產的問題性。而在學術工作日益個人化的當下,期待透過本書探索一種在集體「中/之間」共同工作的可能。
▍本書特色
展現時間悖論─遲滯的未來,而非以線性歷史或「邊緣-中心」來理解,進而展現跨時空、跨類別的內涵,以及「中間物」非空間性的過程與過渡性。
透過「中間物」的概念喻說,使得各篇假以不同的概念與能指,產生彼此之間相互的連結,進一步相互詰問,產生新的閱讀與情感。
在「殖民與冷戰的歷史—地緣關節」下,提供讀者進一步思索中間物的起點,成為亞際知識情感解殖工作之「未-來」的中間橋梁。
▍學界推薦(依姓氏筆畫順序)
Cindy Patton(裴新)Professor ofSociology and Anthropology, The University of Simon Fraser
Teri J. Silvio(司黛蕊)中央研究院民族學研究所研究員
王 蘋 台灣性別人權協會秘書長
王智明 中央研究院歐美所副研究員
丘延亮 社運流浪犬
何春蕤 國立中央大學英美語文學系講座教授/榮譽教授
吳靜如 台灣國際勞工協會TIWA研究員
洪 凌 世新大學性別研究所副教授
夏林清 輔仁大學心理學系退休教授、北京師範大學教育學部特聘教授
高旭寬 跨性別運動積極份子
張小虹 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系特聘教授
張潔平 Matters Lab創辦人暨執行長、前端傳媒總編輯
張歷君 香港中文大學中國語言及文學系客座助理教授
許維賢 新加坡南洋理工大學人文學院副教授
陳光興 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies與《人間思想》主編
陳界仁 台灣著名當代藝術家
陳佩甄 國立政治大學台灣文學研究所助理教授
游 靜 國立中央大學英美語文學系 專任教授
黃盈盈 中國人民大學社會與人口學院社會學系教授、博導
廖勇超 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系副教授
劉紀蕙 國立陽明交通大學榮譽退休教授、亞際文化研究國際學程約聘專任教授
▍主編
丁乃非
國立中央大學英語系教授,性/別研究室成員。著有Obscene Things: Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei(2002);與劉人鵬、白瑞梅合著《罔兩問景:酷兒閱讀攻略》(2007);與劉人鵬合編《置疑婚姻家庭連續體》(2011)。
劉人鵬
國立清華大學中國文學系教授。著有《閻若璩與古文尚書辨偽:一個學術史的個案研究》(2005[1991]);《近代中國女權論述:國族、翻譯與性別政治》(2000);與丁乃非、白瑞梅合著《罔兩問景:酷兒閱讀攻略》(2007)。編有《憂鬱的文化政治》(與鄭聖勳、宋玉雯合編,2010);《置疑婚姻家庭連續體》(與丁乃非合編,2011);《酷兒情感政治:海澀愛文選》(與
宋玉雯、鄭聖勳、蔡孟哲合編,2012);《抱殘守缺:21 世紀殘障研究讀本》(與宋玉雯、蔡孟哲、鄭聖勳合編,2014)。
張馨文
印度班加羅爾文化與社會研究中心(Centre for the Study of Culture and Society)文化研究博士、拉岡取向心理分析實踐者、社會運動者。目前為德里安貝卡大學(Ambedkar University, Delhi)心理系博士候選人。
黃詠光
台大建築與城鄉研究所碩士,曾就讀於印度班加羅爾文化與社會研究中心(Centre for the Study of Culture and Society),現為印度理工學院德里分校(Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)人文與社會科學研究所博士候選人。
▍作者群(依姓氏筆畫順序)
丁乃非/國立中央大學英語系教授、性/別研究室成員
白瑞梅/國立中央大學英美語文學系,為英文系性/別研究室核心成員之一。
李思齊/任教於美國北佛羅里達州大學(University of North Florida)英語系,曾於國立中央大學性/別研究室擔任客座(2017)。
林文玲/中央研究院民族學研究所副研究員、國立陽明交通大學社會與文化研究所合聘教授
林建廷/國立中央大學英文系副教授
林純德/中國文化大學大眾傳播學系教授、《台灣社會研究季刊》編輯委員
張馨文/德里安貝卡大學(Ambedkar University, Delhi)心理系博士候選人
黃詠光/印度理工學院德里分校(Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)人文與社會科學研究所博士候選人
劉人鵬/國立清華大學中國文學系教授
目錄
序|在遲滯的未來中等待:中間物與眾罔兩的時間性/陳佩甄
導言|「中間物」方法論/黃詠光、張馨文、劉人鵬、丁乃非
第一部分 晷影遷馳:在歷史轉型與知識形構之間
性、淫、翻譯:晚清性別知識重構舉隅/劉人鵬
亞洲之間思想遭遇的負面性轉移:瞿秋白與泰戈爾,1924/黃詠光
成者為妻,敗者妾妓:婚姻轉型與女權演化/丁乃非著,黃道明譯
第二部分 無待而獨?─在空白與(種族)階序之間
何謂台灣的「主體性/ subjectivity」?一個在亞洲「之間」的方法論的實踐 /張馨文
等待醫治的斷指:冷戰自由人文主義的國/種族殘缺敘事/林建廷
妖嬈若是:當代中國大陸「妖」的山寨性/別模組化展現/林純德
第三部分 木石之怪:在轉向介質與未知新地之間
社會議題的中介與轉化:以撒舒優.渥巴拉特兩部台灣原住民族紀錄片為例/林文玲
中國跨性別性工作者不確定的未來與言證紀錄片/李思齊(Nicholas de Villiers) 著,蕭美芳、張行 譯,林純德 校譯
幻設轉向:「千禧年」之「喻」/白瑞梅(Amie Parry)著,張竣昱 譯,方郁甄 校訂
文章出處
作者/校譯者簡介
Book title: Penumbrae Query Shadow II: Thing-in-between
Authors: Nai-fei Ding, Amie Parry, Nicholas de Villiers, Wen-ling Lin, Chien-Ting Lin, Dennis C. Lin, Hsin-wen Chang, Wing-kwong Wong, Jen-peng Liu
Editors: Naifei Ding, Jen-peng Liu, Hsin-wen Chang, Wing-kwong Wong
Imagining the be-coming-in-common of “the multitude of penumbrae”
Under different categories, structures, and modes of
Affect, Sex, and Non-human
and with the Thing-in-between as Method
“Penumbrae Query Shadow,” with its original meaning (as the faint shading at the exterior of a shadow) allegorizes a state of double marginality (the margin of the margin), a (quasi) subject receding at every layer of the strata. The receding point of its reference also entails the impossibility of mutual referencing. The articles in this book extend the initial queries of Penumbrae Query Shadow: Queer Reading Tactics published 15 years ago, by reflecting on the external and internal limits of its history and concepts, revisiting the lingering and unresolved questions and theses there, and identifying multiple forms of beings yet in their indistinct profiles. Here “penumbrae”, as the faint shadings at the exterior of shadows, is no longer limited to the narrow sense of “sexual minorities,” but instead extends to many unnameable things—— a cohort not only of the anthropo-subjects of yaos and concubines, but also of the material penumbrae (roads, nuclear waste, severed fingers, the speculative genre), the affective penumbrae (negativity, emptiness, ancient ghosts). The book as a sequel unfolds the queries of the penumbrae from an elusive spatio-temporal position provided by reading the penumbrae allegories of “the passing sundial shadows, the unabiding shady minute” (Zhang Taiyan, 1869-1936) and “that which is neither this nor that ” (Yan Fu, 1854-1921) and reflects anew on the trajectories of the “Things-in-between” in the modernity formations and thoughts in the inter-Asia localities.
The import of “the multitude of penumbrae” as method lies in the “query””- which is to say,
a potent form of pensée, querying at the margins.
This book attempts to take Lu Xun(1881-1936)’s re-inscription/rendering of Nietzsche(1844-1900)’s usage of the word “Mitte”(noun.: middle, between, midst, mean), from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as the “tropical” concept of zhong-jian-wu (Thing-in-between) to a “geo-colonial historical” epistemological dimension, working as a guiding and mediating concept to read the nine essays by nine authors collected in the book that together explore the possibility of critical knowledge production in the Asian present. The questions opened up by each essay seem like rings knotted closely with one another, with “thing-in-between” as the ring in between/in the middle, the locale where the problematics of knowledge production converge. With academic works increasingly being individualised at the present moment, we hope to explore through the experiment of the book a possibility of co-labouring “in the midst of / in-between” the collective.
Features of the Book:
To exhibit the temporal paradox— between belatedness and yet-to-come, instead of the linear history or “center-periphery” trope, so as to further connect the thematics across time and places and across different categories and explore “thing-in-between” as a non-spatial trope for the historical process and its transitionality.
Through the “tropical” concept of “Thing-in-between”, interconnections and mutual interrogations between the conceptual devices and signifiers in all the essays are densely woven like a web, for which we coined an odd catachrestic term “inter-trans-(re)ference”, where the inter-referencing is always transference that carries back a new reading and affect.
To provide readers with a stepping stone to think about “thing-in-between” in the historical conjuncture of colonialism and cold-war, so as to offer a bridge to be passed over for the inter-Asian epistemic-affective labour of decolonization that is yet-to-come .
Academic praise (alphabetical by surname)
CHANG Hsiao-Hung | Distinguished Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Chieh-Jen CHEN | Renowned Taiwan Contemporary Artist
Kuan-Hsing CHEN | Chief Editor, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Renjian Thought Review
Pei-Jean CHEN | Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University
Lik Kwan CHEUNG | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fred Y.L. CHIU | Social Movement Hound
Xu-Kuan GAO | Activist for the Transgender Movement
Wai-Siam HEE | Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University
Josephine HO | Chair Professor / Professor Emeritus, Department of English, National Central University
Lin-Ching HSIA | Retired Professor, Department of Psychology, Fu Jen Catholic University; Senior Chair Professor, Education Faculty, Beijing Normal University
Yingying HUANG | Professor & Doctoral Supervisor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China
Lucifer HUNG | Associate Professor, Graduate Institute for Gender Studies, Shih Hsin University
Yung-Chao LIAO | Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Joyce LIU | Emeritus Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Contracted Professor, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies International Degree Program
Cindy PATTON | Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Teri J. SILVIO | Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Chih-Ming WANG | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
WANG Ping | Secretary General, Gender/Sexuality Rights Association, Taiwan
WU Jing-Ru | Research Fellow, Taiwan International Workers’ Association (TIWA)
YAU Ching | Professor, Department of English, National Central University
Jieping ZHANG | Founder and CEO of Matters Lab; Former Chief Editor of Initium Media
Contents
Preface | Not Belated but yet to Come: the Temporalities of Thing-in-between and the Multitude of Penumbrae / Pei-Jean Chen
Introduction | “Thing-in-between(zhong-jian-wu)” Methodology / Wing-Kwong Wong, Hsing-Wen Chang, Jen-Peng Liu, Nai-fei Ding
Part 1 Passing Sundial Shadows: Between Historical Transformation and Knowledge Formation
Sex, Yin, Translation: Nooks and Crannies of Sex/Gender Knowledge Reconfiguration in Late Qing China / Jen-peng Liu
The Negative Transference in Inter-Asian Encounters: Qu Qiubai and Tagore, 1924 / Wing-Kwong Wong
Winners Take All! Marriage Transformation and Women’s Rights Evolution / Naifei Ding; trans. Hans Tao-Ming Huang
Part 2 In-dependent One? Between Emptiness and (Racial) Hierarchicus
What is Zhu-ti-xing/Subjectivity in Taiwan? An Exercise of Inter-Asia Methodology / Hsing-Wen Chang
Fixing the Severed Fingers: The Militarization of Injured Nationalism and Racialized Cold War Liberal Humanism / Chien-Ting Lin
Flamboyantly Yao: Shanzhai Gender/Sexual Modularization Among Contemporary Chinese Yaos / Dennis Chwen-der Lin
Part 3 The Queerness of Woods-Stones: Between the Material Turn and the Unknown New Terrain
Mediations and Transformations of Social Issues: Analysis of Two Taiwan Indigenous Documentaries of Sasuyu Ubalat / Wen-Ling Lin
Uncertain Futures of Chinese Trans Sex Workers and Testimonial Documentary / Nicholas de Villiers; trans. Mei-fong Siu, Xing Zhang; ed. and trans. Dennis Chwen-der Lin
The Speculative Turn: Parables for the Millennium / Amie Parry; trans. Jun-Yu Zhang; ed. and annot. Yu-Jen Fang
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主持人:廖勇超 /國立臺灣大學外國語文學系副教授
與談人:
陳佩甄/國立政治大學台灣文學研究所助理教授
黃詠光/印度理工學院德里分校(Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)人文與社會科學研究所博士候選人
張馨文/德里安貝卡大學(Ambedkar University, Delhi)心理系博士候選人
林文玲/中央研究院民族學研究所副研究員
林純德/中國文化大學大眾傳播學系教授、《台灣社會研究季刊》編輯委員
白瑞梅/國立中央大學英美語文學系教授,性/別研究室成員
丁乃非/國立中央大學英語系教授,性/別研究室成員
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