當我們談論新冠疫情的時候，我們在談論什麼？生命政治，大流行病以及全球失序的一種社會學解釋

Abstract

新冠病毒疫情讓世界深陷危機，而此番全球失序的終點至今未見。人們談論新冠大流行時會不斷提到「生命」的概念，然而如果無法理解「生命」的社會學意涵，僅僅考慮致死率遠遠不能解釋新冠疫情造成的全球政治後果。藉由阿甘本和福柯的生命政治概念，本文認為新冠疫情被絕大多數國家政府塑造成為了迫切需要國家干預的安全議題。通過對安全概念的譜係學考察，本文表明當下對新冠疫情的全球想象已經背離了「生命」的起點，而從根本上成為了一場基於制度拜物教與身份政治思維方式的中國與西方的地緣文化競爭。

Covid-19 has plunged the world in deep crisis and the end of the current global disorder is unforeseeable. 'Life' is the most common utterance when people talk about the pandemic, whereas any explanation of its global-political effects by referring to deaths will be misleading if no proper conception of 'life' is postulated. Drawing upon the concept of biopolitics of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, this article will argue that Covid-19 has been framed by most state-governments as a pressing security issue that demands exceptional official measures. In mapping the genealogy of the concept of security itself, I will show that the current global imagination of Covid-19 has already deviated from the original concern about life. It is fundamentally a geo-cultural competition between China and the West as a cumulation of institutional fetishism and identity politics after the Cold War.