But this cinema can also draw attention to an alternative potential direction of ethics irreducible to collective politics, when biopolitical abject figures become contingent agents of new relations through commonality without community, solidarity without unity. Catastrophe from earthquake to zombification is an easy window to start with, since the cinema of catastrophe often symptomatizes a political deadlock of the current global world, the impossible utopian change in various forms of catastrophic imagination. This narrative structure is prevalent in films with the motifs of journey, migration, bare life, coming-of-age, midlife crisis, secret agency, networking, and disaster, more or less resonating with global conditions of connected yet vulnerable life. They become agents in the sense of acting to fulfill a mission which can be not only homecoming but also revenge or a terroristic attack, sacrifice or a gift-giving of themselves. What is especially interesting is the theme of abjection: once characters lose their sociopolitical subjectivity, cast out of their community, they struggle to regain their original identity or gain new subjectivity. ‘Global East Asian cinema’ could then be termed for critical engagement with global phenomena and their influences on the notions of community and subjectivity as reflected or allegorized in the East Asian context. Then how does cinema address today’s global life? This special double issue of Studies in the Humanities addresses this question in the frame of ‘global East Asia,’ with its Asian identity taking on a sort of compatible locality that is not absolutely confined in Asian particularity. Political dialectics has turned into the absolute antagonism between the ‘soft’ ethical inclusion of differences in the whole and the ‘hard’ ethical backlash from its excluded remnants.

Globalization has brought a blossoming of inclusive systems of transnational capitalism, multicultural traffic, and networking technology, while also generating symptoms of exclusion related to migration/refuge, precarious life, and various catastrophes that debunk the holistic universality of one rainbow global village.

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