Taiwan People Party chair Ko Wen-je faces up to 28 years and six months in prison, but has since been released on bail. Ko’s release last Friday saw the Taiwan District Court deny a motion by prosecutors to keep Ko behind bars...
The nuclear bomb certainly posed a serious problem for contemporary philosophy. From Heidegger to Arendt to Marcuse, philosophy in the mid-20th century struggled to deal with this all-annihilating artificial production. Unfortunately, most of these philosophers did not analyze the complex relationships between nuclear technology, capital, state, etc. They did not even attempt to analyze the history or the ABCs of this technology. Hence while they criticized the “atomization” of contemporary society, they did not even notice that the contemporary world is one in which the atom is no longer truly an “atom,” that is, something that cannot be split. What’s worse, philosophy seemed to be totally incapable of dealing with nuclear power. It’s simply beyond the limits of both reason and imagination...
Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, the leader of the TPP, was indicted earlier today. Prosecutors are seeking a jail sentence of 28 years and six months in jail for Ko...
Of the three laws passed by the KMT last week, the least discussed has been changes to budgetary provisions between the central and local governments. The KMT push for changing budgetary provisions brings together several recurring threads in Taiwanese politics in the past few years...
As the KMT continues with efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court, views on capital punishments are set to become a political dividing line. That is, the KMT will justify blocking the DPP’s nominations on the basis of capital punishment...
Three controversial bills were forced through the legislature by the KMT last week, with all three bills completing their third reading in the legislature...
Migrant worker advocacy groups demonstrated on Wednesday, December 18th. This marked International Migrant Workers’ Day. To mark this, organizations demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Labor...
After a night of protest around the legislature, with DPP legislators forcing their way into the legislature and dramatically ousting the KMT, DPP legislators were themselves pushed out of the legislative assembly chambers this morning...
