本課程討論英文小說與電影電視的感染論述，透過分析小說、流行文化與醫學論述建構的感染文化與入侵想像，討論感染書寫被賦予醫學化、異常化、病理化的文化與政治意涵，檢視為何感染顯示生命政治的規範治理，論述為何感染不只是身體的病徵，更顯示個人與集體抉擇的多元倫理面向，並針對感染實施的預防、隔離、治療等強制手段如何呈現科學理性對待身體的醫學化、標準化、正常化約制，以及當感染脫離他者的物化地位，轉身具有主體意識與動能的參與力量，人、環 境、感染等緊密連結的物的議會概念得以成立，並得以從而檢驗人體與病菌共生結 構概念下衍生行動網絡與液態現代性的議題與發展，而感染的身軀正是生命政治轉介為自我技術的關鍵環節。

This course examines classic and contemporary writings of contagions and their various manifestations as the unnamable thing itself in literature, popular culture and medical narratives, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the infection is not just their difference but more to do with the similarity with us. The excessive and transgressive qualities of the outbreaks suggest its indeterminacy across the boundary of the normal and the abnormal, the fit and the unfit, the healthy and the sick, in which medical mechanism of normalism, behaviorism and moralism provides the knowledge to draw the demarcating line. In accordance, a governance of discipline and technology is built upon the intermingling interaction of medical studies of pathology, psychology, physiognomy, sociological studies of degeneration and corruption, and literary and cultural production to enhance their persistent presence of violence and transgression. The urgency of total annihilation and assimilation, as suggested by contagions, justify the need for the punitive society to manage and fortify current order in order to achieve a possible containment that is yet to come. Methods of management rely heavily on the bipolarization of the normalization of the health and stigmatization of the contagious. In providing a diagnosis reading of the normalcy, narratives of outbreaks become the wholesale supplier in associating abnormality with idiosyncrasy, deviancy and unhealthiness, not just for disciplining mechanism but also for the technology of the self.