社會傳染
Social Contagion (and other material on microbiological class war in China)

Description

《社會傳染》展現了新冠肺炎在武漢爆發的不為人知的故事。『闖』是生活在中國國內外的共產主義者所組成的一個集體，借此記錄了平頭百姓身陷致命病毒和高壓國家之間的鬥爭和掙扎。他們認為，中國迅速但脆弱的經濟增長為新的致命病毒創造了社會和生物學環境，而新冠肺炎只是最新的一個例子。《社會傳染》通過實地訪談、報告和分析，為我們呈現了中國國家機器既雷厲風行又沒有實效的應對措施，以及普通中國工人自我組織的生存戰略。『闖』由此得出結論，此次大流行引發了新的反暴動治理模式，這種模式的根源在於數十年的建制實驗和國家機器理論方興未艾。

Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuǎng, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught between a lethal virus and a repressive state. They argue that China’s rapid but fragile economic growth has created the social and biological conditions for new and deadly viruses, of which COVID-19 was merely the latest iteration. Through on-the-ground interviews, reports and analysis, Social Contagion gives us a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state, as well as the self-organising survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. Chuǎng conclude that the pandemic has enabled a new mode of counter-insurgent governance, one rooted in decades of institutional experimentation and an emergent theory of statecraft.

– – – – – – – – – –

闖 Chuǎng：這個字的意象是一匹馬闖過一道門。意義：掙脫；攻擊、衝鋒；衝破；衝動。《闖》出版了一本雜誌來分析中國資本主義的持續發展，它的歷史根源，以及被其壓垮的人們的反抗。《闖》也是一個博客，以時間順序記錄這個發展過程，用更簡短、即時的方式，以想要闖出資本主義屠宰場的人們的利益為考量，發佈關於中國新聞的翻譯、報告和評論。

闖 Chuǎng: The image of a horse breaking through a gate. Meaning: To break free; To attack, charge; To break through; To act impetuously. Chuǎng publishes a journal analysing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it. Chuǎng is also a blog chronicling these developments in shorter and more immediate form by publishing translations, reports, and comments on Chinese news of interest to those who want to break beyond the bounds of the slaughterhouse called capitalism.