英文摘要 |
In the contemporary global scenario of shadow war, Taiwan’s precarious yet de facto sovereignty has entered a liminal phase. Amidst the growing military and economic threats, there has been a surge of digital works infused with an intense political purpose. These various forms of creative work—including memes, new media shows, and a range of visual, textual, musical, theatrical, and curatorial pieces—often employ the tactic of humor that is rooted in inside knowledge and jokes. This essay elucidates the conceptual genealogies of humor, wherein theorizing an affective sense of connectability depends on intelligibility and decalcomania. Through this lens, this essay then delves into the collaborative political memes and parodies of Eye Central Television and the First Annual“Apologise To China”Contest that have gained popularity in recent years, highlighting the ways in which humor works as a shared queer affect of Taiwan. Performing as a reflexive, open-ended heteroglossia, and as a continuous collaborative digitalscape, this affect serves both to queer a sense of trauma and anxiety of the enduring political tension and to persistently seek out new forms of protesting assemblages. By doing so, this performativity further facilitates the mobilization of a coalition of solidarity committed to repairing and transforming existing power apparatuses. |