重訪灰色地帶：跨世代創傷、牽連的主體、與當代見證文學中的倫理問題

This paper aims to address the present-day political and cultural predicaments through a close look into the configuration of micro-relations as played out in Jacques Ranciere’s theory of politics and aesthetics, Michael Rothberg’s theory of implication, and The Stolen Bicycle. The first part of the paper discusses Ranciere’s propositions on the politics of aesthetics and its relation with the distribution of the sensible and brings forth the argument that his critique of the ethical turn in contemporary art and politics helps us to see how micro-relations may work as a regime which enables the distribution of the sensible. The second part dwells upon Rothberg’s theory of implication. I try to show how his theory provides the possibility of reconfiguring subjectivity and political solidarity. In the past part of this paper, by examining The Stolen Bicycle through the lens of the theoretical framework derived from Ranciere and Rothberg, I would argue that the diverse subject positions and identity-informed memories as embodied in the novel not only expose the reign of ethics in the contemporary scene but also bring about how the micro-relations formed by all the implicated subjects, human or non-human, push us to move beyond such ethical constraints.