Speaker Series
Surplus Memories? Remediating the Cold War in Web 2.0 South Korea
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Description
How have Cold War icons morphed in the contemporary digital landscape? To examine the dynamics of cultural memory amid expanding technological networks, this talk looks at a South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) that features North Korean spies—a well-worn trope for the long-divided nation. In tracing how the country’s older aesthetics are remediated in the Web 2.0 era, this talk historicizes the sensibility of surplus that connects the webtoon and its major consumers, namely, the millennial generation growing up with mobile communication. Feeling that their lives are rendered useless under neoliberal governance, the precarious youth of this generation empathetically relate to tales of survival, especially about those whose lives have been easily discarded in a society that restricts crossing boundaries of various types from the geopolitical to the socioeconomic.
Publication Date
10-18-2018
Relational Format
archival material
Recommended Citation
Yi, We Jung, "Surplus Memories? Remediating the Cold War in Web 2.0 South Korea" (2018). Speaker Series. 20.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/croft_spe/20