英文摘要 |
By way of looking at some key moments of the World AIDS Day campaigns conducted by the government and NGOs since the 1990s, this essay maps out the terrain of Taiwan's national AIDS pedagogy, attempting to examine the production of the national body, time-space, and the politics of emotion therein. Situating the official AIDS policy within the context of the post-martial law geopolitics, I mark out the 'sexual orientation' of national AIDS pedagogy as one that orientates the national body towards the monogamous ideal while steering it away from the diseased sexual tropics. Further, I look into the affective directive of such orientation organised under the rhetoric of love by showing how glocalised objects such as the quilt and the waterlily lantern come to be massively sentimentalised. With the Red Ribbon morphed into the circle of humanity that claims, as a gesture of social inclusion, to safeguard people living With AIDS/HIV, I elucidate how this affective climate of compassion is nothing but a product of a melancholic state that fosters intense sexual moralism. Finally, this essay offers a politics of mourning and remembrance as enacted by people living with HIV/AIDS themselves, in order to contest the national imagination that forecloses the historicity of the AIDS body from its futurity. |