The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana: Spectral Transitions

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
Part I The Taiwan Consensus
2 Detention and the Rousseauian Consensus
	Two Images of Authoritarianism
	Plot Summary of the Film, Detention
	Autoimmunity and Compulsion
	Copying Rousseau Copying, or, the Aporias of Political Anthropology
	Anthropological Coding
	Authoritarian Freedom
	The Wounded Interiority of Victimhood Nationalism
	Back to School Gamification
	The Erasure of Communism
	Spectatorship
	The Purity of Absolute Consensus
3 Spectres, Monsters, and Trauma (The Ethos of Area Studies I)
	Cannibalism, Monsters, and the Visor Effect
	Gendered Zhuti
	Doctor Father
	Spectres and Historical Trauma
	The Trauma of Capitalism
	Carl Schmitt Everywhere
4 The Taiwan Consensus and Transitional Justice
	The Taiwan Consensus
	Neoliberal Civil War and Consensus
	Civilian Militias
	The Epistemology of the Secret: Hegemony and Conspiracy in the Era of the Privatised Digital Platform
	Human Rights Discourse and Transitional Justice
	A Consensus of the Bystanders and Beneficiaries
	US Hegemony and Transitional Justice
	War and Consensus
	Transnational Justice and Translation
Part II The Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana
5 Transition, or Area as a Tool to Manage the Capitalist Outside
	A Tight Little Island
	Transpacific Spectral Transitions
	Civil Society in Transition
	The Language of Defeat
	The Outside
	Transition or What Good Is an Area?
6 From Dullesism to Financialisation (The Ethos of Area Studies II)
	Dullesism and the Spirit of Area Studies
	Conspiracy, Complicity, and Disavowal: The Loss of China
	Area Studies as Alibi
	The Logistics of Honesty
	The Labour of Translation: Assigning Referentiality, Globalisation, and the Derivative
	Area Studies as an Appendage of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
	The Financialisation of Knowledge and the Area Studies as Spread Arbitrage
	When Anthropos Becomes a Robot
7 Cofiguration
	Hegemonic Global Whiteness and the Construction of Ethnicity in Taiwan
	The Pax Americana Cofiguration Program
	Cofiguration and the Ideology of Cultural Difference
	An Anticommunist Ethos
	Postcolonial Immunity
8 From Anti-Centrism Studies to Translation
	Anti-Centrism Studies and Decolonisation
	Lessons from the Taiwanese Underground
	The Other Struggle
Works Cited
Index