COVID-19與美學的危機時刻

COVID-19 and Aesthetics's Time of Crisis

二○二○年已經過去。我們仍走在技術進步的道路上，對制度進步卻不再滿懷希望。當代人對技術進步的努力，並不因災禍當前而停滯，反而取得前所未有的高速發展。技術進步與災禍不止，除了同時代性，是否還存在更深層的關聯？本文認為，技術進步所要求的全面去管制化，是當代天災人禍頻傳的根本原因。全面去管制化，塑造了過度積極的肯定性社會。否定性的消失，意味著他者的消失。抹消他者，倫理與美學則不復存在。有鑑於此，本文將先後討論當下各種災禍與技術發展間的關聯，並分析防疫思維所帶來的技術創新，如何將我們引向美學的危機時刻。

2020 has come and gone. We're still on the path built with ever-advancing technologies feeling despair in the systems created to ensure the proper functions of the technological development. It's evident that mankind's devotion to technologies hasn't been curbed despite of one after another catastrophe; on the contrary, it's progressed with unprecedented intensity. Is there a deeper connection existing underneath the more and more sophisticated technologies and their coetaneous disasters? It is the aim of this thesis to claim that the absolute deregulation required for new technologies is fundamentally responsible for the ceaseless disasters. Deregulation creates an excessively positive society. The negativity is driven out along with otherness. The vanishing of otherness eliminates ethics and aesthetics. In the light of this, this thesis will discuss the connection between the ongoing disasters and the technological development as well as how the innovative technologies prompted by the COVID-19 prevention concept lead aesthetics to its times of crisis.