这是一个思想聚会的活动，一些做当代人文理论或思想的朋友，一年几次，大家来开聊、谈论自己在做或关心的题目，也开放听众参加。不同于一般学界正式的活动，谈话会的形式较为软性且重对话性，以朋友间的连结为基底，希望建立一个知识与情感双向交往、开展的思想社群。此次谈话会邀请到本所教师劳维俊副教授与东吴⼤学的张君玫教授，欢迎有兴趣的朋友一同参与！

开谈人：张君玫、劳维俊（Louis Lo）
时间：2023年12月23日 2:00~5:30 pm
地点：台湾大学校史馆一楼外文系会议室
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谈话内容：
劳维俊 Louis Lo（国立阳明交通大学视觉文化研究所副教授）
题目：Baroque Revenge: An Approach to Problems of Modernity〔英文演讲，中文讨论〕
构想：Why do we need to theorize revenge? What is revenge? What is a revenger? Answers to these questions seem straight forward enough. Take the first question: Revenge is a counterblow to an offence or an injury. But why take revenge instead of forgive? For a sense of justice? But revenge is often excessive and produces more damage on the offender than the original crime. It is itself unjust and creates more rounds of revenge. An eye for an eye logic is said to be operating as a balancing act, but everyday experience tells us that it is not usually the case. In this talk I would like to try out an argument about revenge and its baroque nature by taking examples from literature (primarily Shakespearean revenge plays) and cinema (primarily contemporary Korean revenge films). The baroque style can be understood as excessive and exaggerated, characterized by theatricality and the stage, filled with contradictions and conflicts, operating in the realm of allegory, and its mood is melancholic. By enlisting theorists of revenge and the baroque including Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Deleuze vis-a-vis baroque critics such as Erik Roraback and William Egginton, I hope to arrive at an understanding of revenge that goes beyond what Nietzsche calls “the culture of revenge” which is reactionary, conservative, and spiteful.

张君玫（东吴⼤学社会学教授）
题目：横截性的分⼦群岛思想 Transversal molecular archipelagic thinking
构想：如同有机体会和它的栖息地、环境和⾏星之间产⽣特殊共鸣，思考者也创造出与其处境及岛屿之间的共时性。对于⼀个后殖民群岛思想者，任何通过此身⼼的，都必然经历迁变。思考者及其世界之间，有着某种历史特定的横截共时性（transversal synchronicity）。

透过横截共时性的概念，我想要重新勾画⽣命、技术和思想之间的关系，它们很可能在最⼩的尺度上早已同时发⽣，比如Lynn Margulis所说的「微⽣物⼼智」（microbial mind）。回应Dipesh Chakrabarty在思考⼈类世时所主张的，物种历史和资本历史之间的交叉影线，我提出了「后殖民的分⼦化涂鸦」postcolonial molecular scribbling），我认为艺术治疗中的涂鸦技法，使⽤流动的线条去追溯多向度的运动对我们时代的非线性历史理解，会是⼀个更适切的隐喻。

在这次谈话会中，我想要透过几个例⼦来讨论微⽣物免疫技术的共⽣演化，及其所体现的⾏星记忆，并阐述「后殖民分⼦化涂鸦」概念中早已隐含的「横截性的分⼦群岛思想」。