本文援引情動力理論及羅倫‧波蘭有關情動力及歷史書寫的見解，評析旅美菲律賓女作家妮洛琦卡‧羅思嘉《戰爭狀態》一書中國家、歷史與情動力的關係。本文認為該書對歷史事件、日常生活實踐，帝國親密接觸和情動力主體形塑的諸多描述有其互相關聯之處，值得進一步考察，並藉此探討國家的公眾歷史──如戰爭、殖民主義、政權或主權的更迭、體制性的暴力──對日常生活角色的入侵與建構，因此小說勾勒的並非國家主體，而是情動力主體。帝國親密歷史狀態將超越性的權力摺進日常生活的遍在性權力平面，在主體與殖民者及極權統治者接觸時，產生羞恥、恐懼及背叛等情感，這些情感既是主體對歷史現前的立即情感反應，也是促成主體生成流變，再造自我的動力。本文細究菲律賓複雜的多重殖民歷史所形塑的情動力主體，藉此探尋繼承過去的另類方式，重新思考建基於情動力知識論的後殖民歷史書寫。

Drawing upon cultural theories of affect, and Lauren Berlant’s concepts of affect and historiography, this paper examines the affective history of the nation in State of War, a novel by US-based Filipino writer Ninotchka Rosca, through an investigation of the linkages between historical events, everyday practices, imperial intimate encounters, and the formation of the affective subjects. The paper contends that the public events/history of the nation—war, colonialism, rule changes, institutional violence—invades and reshapes the characters in their everyday lives, and positions them not as national subjects but affective subjects. Historically, under conditions of imperial intimacy, transcendental power is folded into the immanent plane of everyday life, creating emotions such as shame, fear, and betrayal in the subjects’ “intimate” encounters with colonizers and totalitarian regimes. These emotions are both the result of the characters’ affective responses to the pressure of the historical present, and also the affect that catalyzes their becoming otherwise. By means of scrutinizing the formation of affective subjects in the complex colonial histories of the Philippines, as revealed in State of War, the paper aims to explore an alternative means of inheriting the past and to reconfigure a postcolonial historiography based upon an affective epistemology.