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Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea
- Author(s):
- Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- Arts and Culture for Global Development, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, Literary theory, Poetics and Poetry
- Subject(s):
- Korea (North), Dystopias, Dystopian fiction, Utopias, Dystopias, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Art, Art, Korea
- Item Type:
- Video essay
- Tag(s):
- uncanny valley, body politic, political aesthetics, affect studies, capitalism, juche, Asian Representation, Video games, media and culture, Cultural appropriation
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/10hn-a249
- Abstract:
- This is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I'm sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the "uncanny body politic," the uncanny valley, "dystopian poetics," what it means to outsource dystopian poetics, the intersection of aesthetics and politics. Authors/artists mentioned include: Thomas Hobbes, Mary Shelley, David Mitchell, Marjane Satrapi, Song Byeok, Sun Mu, Masahiro Mori, Andy Warhol. The talk also discusses the James Bond film Die Another Day.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 11 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
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