Comprising an artist (LEE Tzu Tung), an anthropologist (LEE Mei-Chun), engineers (PENG Cheng, CHING Fu-Shiang), and an organizer within civic tech (Lulu KENG), our collective—Cyborg Resilience Co-lab—interrogates the expanding frontiers of posthuman warfare. We navigate the liminal spaces where geopolitical conflict is no longer defined by physical borders but diffused into ambiguity—a state that leaves behind not peace, but a Samsara of recursive trauma.

These grey zones represent the new frontlines of cognitive warfare, a tropical miasma of disinformation where the binary of victor and victim collapses into an entangled complicity. In this era of algorithmic governance, where the agency of killing is delegated to soulless machinery and ethical accountability dissolves into the decentralized techno-void, our task becomes a ritual of radical tuning. We strive to compost the weaponized noise—whether born of patriarchal pride or automated violence—to cultivate a resilient frequency of situated truth.

Drawing from the fierce maternal archetypes of tropical epistemologies—from the devouring power of Kali to the generative void of the “Dark Female” (玄牝)—our goal is to perturb the monolithic, AI-recognizable patterns of warfare. We ground this practice in Taiwan, viewing it not merely as a territory, but as the ultimate embodiment of the grey zone: a “queered” geopolitical entity existing in a Bardo state, suspended between life and death, functioning outside the Westphalian norm.

Here, amidst humidity, generational trauma, and instability, we envision our laboratory as the Temple of the Wandering Daughters (姑娘廟). More than a shelter, this temple acts as a processing node for ferrying, devouring, and regenerating the “grey individuals” caught in the algorithmic crossfire. Through rituals of cyborg resilience—re-appropriating war technology, organizing cyborg feminist fight clubs, and hacking narratives via script workshops—we commit to glitching the war genealogy. We function as a maw that digests the soulless military offerings, dismantling the enemy’s logic to fuel our traversal through the grey eternity of the Kalpa (劫).