朝向新健康：後疫情時代的文學部署

Towards a New Health: The Dispositif of Literature in the Post-Pandemic Era

自2019 年底爆發並在全球蔓延的新冠疫情已為人類生存及社會文明帶來深刻的衝擊。本文以後疫情時代的文學部署為題，一方面凸顯文學書寫與生命健康之間的密切關係，另一方面更探索文學部署的意涵及其可能。本文首先從疫病書寫的符號修辭學開始，披露文學書寫本身既有的批評與臨床雙重功能。其次，本文將聚焦文學作為藥方這一古老概念，指出文學書寫與生命健康兩者密不可分的關係。接著，本文將闡述後疫情時代文學部署的具體意涵，說明文學如何介入生命體持續變異的跨個體化歷程，並由此創造個人與社會群體的健康。最後，文章以文學與健康的思考總結後疫情時代的文學部署，強調文學擬造如何帶來個人生命與集體社會的更新。

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on humanity and society since its outbreak. In this post-pandemic era, this paper concerns itself with the dispositif of literature, aiming at illustrating the close relationship between literature and heath as well as exploring the meanings of the literary dispositif and its possibilities. First, this essay elucidates the double aspects of literature, namely critical and clinical, through a semiotic reading of literature on illness. Second, such ambivalence is revealed, through a critical review of the idea of pharmakon, to shed light on the inseparable relationship between literature and health. Then, the paper illustrates the dispositif of literature during this pandemic, in which literature participates in the individuation process of a living being and a society, thereby inventing a new concept of health for both individual and society. I conclude with a rethinking the relationship between literature and health, with an emphasis on how fabulation can bring forth a new health that informs a new society.