문화연구Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.5
Jeonghyun Lee
{"title":"A genealogy of ‘tech-waste’","authors":"Jeonghyun Lee","doi":"10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"At the most final stage of the life cycle of a product, when it can no longer be used or is unusable, we call it “waste”. Waste has largely been a matter of indifference, while we describe and experience the technology as progress. However, the question of what to classify as waste, where to dispose of this waste, and who will move this waste has historically involved social context and contemporary power. This article defines waste generated as an inevitable byproduct of technological development as “tech-waste” and explores the genealogical composition of tech-waste within Korean society. This paper describes how technological waste has been defined and managed in Korea, focusing on the discourse found in KBS news reports searched for using “waste” as a keyword from 1987 to 2023 and policy reports from the Ministry of Environment's digital library during the same period. It categorizes technological waste into the emergence of technological waste, its authoritative (re)placement, and ubiquitous technological waste. Through this process, this paper aims to allow a critical understanding of tech-waste, which invisible mediates human-technology-environment, and reflect on the organic relationship between them.","PeriodicalId":475401,"journal":{"name":"문화연구","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135976576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
문화연구Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.33
Hyo-Jeong Kim
{"title":"Feminist Politics of the Climate Crisis and Becoming Ecological Citizens","authors":"Hyo-Jeong Kim","doi":"10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.33","url":null,"abstract":"The climate crisis is a global and urgent ecological problem facing humanity that cannot be avoided. The various ecological and environmental catastrophes caused by the current climate crisis lead to the politics of developing science and technology to solve them. However, the climate crisis is also rearranging human society in the midst of environmental changes that cannot be predicted by science and technology. This article begins with a critique of the science-technoism, anthropocentrism, colonialism, and developmentalism of the mainstream climate crisis discourses by asking: whose crisis is the climate crisis, and whose responsibility is it? This article calls for a deconstruction of the science-technoism discourse surrounding the climate crisis and a reconstruction of the relationship between humans and nature, especially through ecofeminism and new materialist feminism. By elucidating ecofeminism's decolonization theory of the climate crisis and new material feminism's becoming-climate debate, this study critically examines the issue of women's victimization in the climate crisis and considers whether nature can become a public subject in our society. Based on the analysis of feminist politics surrounding the climate crisis, this study proposes becoming ecological citizens as a new feminist citizenship in the era of climate crisis through the case study of women peasants' ecological citizenship practices based on interspecies relations.","PeriodicalId":475401,"journal":{"name":"문화연구","volume":"34 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135976269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
문화연구Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.109
SangYeong Seo
{"title":"National Cinema in the Transnational Cultural Market: A Focus on the Films of Director Edward Yang","authors":"SangYeong Seo","doi":"10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.109","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to problematize the critical and research landscape that anchor Edward Yang's films within the framework of national cinema, based on a post-colonial Marxist perspective. The success of the Taiwanese New Wave was influenced not only by the anti-colonial movement but also by marketing strategies within the postmodern art market. Furthermore, there was a process of responding to the new nation's desire for profit through the export of goods in the international market. Therefore, this paper aims to explore a new perspective in interpreting Edward Yang's films as national cinema, while also revealing aspects that have been concealed by the logic of criticism and the market surrounding his films. To achieve this, the paper focuses on new character types in his films since the 1990s, suggesting that his films may reproduce the culture of patriarchal bourgeois families. Thus, this paper aims to indicate that the concept of national cinema can solidify its privileged position within the nation and suppress diversity, when studying national cinema in the era of transnational capitalism.","PeriodicalId":475401,"journal":{"name":"문화연구","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135976580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
문화연구Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.85
Jongim Lee
{"title":"Exploring the meaning and critical engagement of Cultural Studies Researcher: Focusing on Won Yong-jin’s journey of practical intervention with Cultural Action","authors":"Jongim Lee","doi":"10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.85","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to discuss the journey and meaning of Won Yong-jin's critical engagement in commemoration of his retirement as a professor and co-representative of Cultural Action. Although cultural researchers are engaged in activities to criticize reality with civic groups, Won Yong-jin has a slightly different meaning in that he was an early founding member of the civic group ‘Cultural Action’ and carried out critical activities as a co-representative until his retirement as a professor. The government's cultural policy criticism, journalism, and media literacy movements that he has been involved in for a long time later expanded into regional movements, climate crisis, blacklist movement for cultural artists, and critical discourse on digital technology. He has been seeking to form popular politics and has engaged in critical intervention focusing on political and social agendas. As a result of examining his journey into practical politics, it was found that his theoretical orientation, which considered the value of social participation as a cultural studies researcher, worked even more strongly through Cultural Action.","PeriodicalId":475401,"journal":{"name":"문화연구","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135976432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
문화연구Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.63
Suk Jin Chae
{"title":"Making home for a breathable life","authors":"Suk Jin Chae","doi":"10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38185/kjcs.2023.11.2.63","url":null,"abstract":"Home has long functioned in our daily lives as a material, social, and imaginary space for a breathable life. This article seeks to consider the relationship between technologies and making home for a breathable life. For this purpose, this article consists of three parts. First, it looks at the complex meaning of home adopted in the field of humanities and sociologies in Europe. In this process, it defines home as a place in which physical places and social experiences are constantly interacting and assembled. Additionally, it defines the home-making process as a sociomaterial practice constructed across private and public spaces. Next, it moves to examine how the process of creating a home is closely linked to the power relationship between majority and minority where class, gender, race, and disability intersect. These power relations, in particular, determine the ability to feel comfortable in public spaces and act as a key element in constituting the sense of home and homelessness. Next, it discusses the dominant discourse on technology presented as a solution to homelessness of the minorities and how it is combined with the homemaking process by them. Lastly, as an alternative, it suggests adopting ‘matters of care’, which feminist technology researchers have presented as a way of technology research to contribute to building a breathable life.","PeriodicalId":475401,"journal":{"name":"문화연구","volume":"147 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135976440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}