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Treasure Island: The Discursive Struggle for Taiwan in the Midst of the New Cold War
by: Alain Brossat & Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado
"The articles in this book, placed under the rubric of political philosophy, political sciences, geopolitics, history, or anthropology, discuss how the operation of construction of the "enemy" articulates specific discursive strategies and tactics, and how it can be operated and led like a war. The authors envision the questions of the present and the evolving international situation by focusing on East Asia as one of the primary "knots" of international tensions and risks of war: Taiwan, where the authors have lived and worked for many years, is one of the premier observation posts in the world for trying to decipher what our very intricate and enigmatic present is essentially made of. It is, at the same time, a primordial enclave from which to prose a policy of pacification and neutrality in the face of the growing risk of polarisation and conflict. These are the challenges this book addresses by prioritizing the power of critique over alignment with a party or state power."
Book extracts are available here.
Performing Bare Feminism: A Taiwanese Contextualization of the Femen’s Body
by: Elsa Daniels and Julien Quelennec
"The Femen represents an obvious example of the political use of the body. Their chosen weapon, the breast, is used to develop their tactic of “sextremism.” The political use of the breast is not something new, but it seems that through the actions of the Femen, it is re-deployed in a new fashion, within the context of a discourse on sex and gender which just begins to be activated, though in a blurry way, outside of the academic world. The history of the breast illustrates how women have been deprived of their bodies. The Femen place and perform the act of liberation at the center of their protest each time. Women have been deprived of the use of their own body, and to the Femen this new wave of “sextremism” is the direct and radical answer to such alienation."
Read the article in full here.