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政治學英翻中

原文:

The crucial point, however, is not only the discovery of the unknown unknowns, but
that simultaneously the knowledge, control and security claim of state and society
was, indeed had to be, renewed, deepened, and expanded. The irony lies in the
institutionalized security claim, to have to control something, even if one does not
know, whether it exists! But why should a science or a discipline concern itself with
what it does not even know? There is certainly a conclusive sociological answer to
that: because in the face of the production of insuperable manufactured uncertainties
society more than ever relies and insists on security and control; and because the
argument about the knowing and not-knowing of global risks cancels the established
national and international rule systems. It sounds really ironic, but it is precisely
unknown unknowns which provoke far-reaching conflicts over the definition and
construction of political rules and responsibilities with the aim of preventing the
worst. For the time being the last and most striking example of that is the Second
Iraq War, which was, at least also, conducted in order to prevent what we cannot
know, that is, whether and to what extent chemical and nuclear weapons of mass
destruction get into the hands of terrorists

譯文:

但重點就不只是發現未知的事物,而是同時了解、控管和保全社會和國家,就是需再造、深化和擴張的實際需求。諷刺的是就在於本能化的安全需求,而需控管即使是未知或不管是否存在的某些事物。但為何某種科學或定律本身跟某些甚至未知的事物相關呢?可能存有某個具有結論的社會學答案:因為在面對無法超越的不確定性產生時,社會比以往更著重堅持於安全和控管上,而因為對整體風險的已知或未知上的爭議,則瓦解了已建立的國家和國際法規制度。聽來實在諷刺,但確實是未知的事物,促成在避免產生最糟結果之目的下,對政治規範和政治責任的定義和建構,即引發更深遠的爭議。就目前而言,最終且最令人注意的就是第2次的伊拉克戰爭,至少也是用於避免未知事物產生的手段,也就是無法了解化學和核子武器,落入恐怖份子手中,所造成實質的可能影響和影響程度。

 

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