• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2015

Myths and architectural spaces are cultural products symbolizing ideologies and objects respectively. Myth has the structure and the contents of a unique view of the world that reflects thoughts and representations of the nationalities. This study is about 'the spaces of the memory' adapted by the mythic tradition among many aspects of the Japanese tradition. The process of this study is illustrated as follows: At first, it mentions the concept of Gilbert Durand's mythic imaginaries and prototype with the method on how the myth is applied to the architectural spaces in the cultural context. Secondly, It clarifies basic meaning arrangement of the Japanese traditional spaces related to the myth. It shows sourceful 'prototipical system' that lies in the relation between thoughts and representations, regarding the shinto's spaces in terms of mythical imaginaries and Japanness. Thirdly, it ascertains mythical structure represented in the traditional space designs on terms with 'prototype' from symbolic system of the myth. It selects the cases among Japanese contemporary architects's works designed after 1960's, and analyses the meanings. In conclusion, it clarifies that this way can be a suggestion as the space design method combining the human's imaginary property with the time-stratigraphic region, and offering creative ideas for the strategy of the space design brand image that embraces a wide range of culture, ecology, and sensibility.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.125-147
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• 2020

On the World Refugee Day in 2017, Yao Chen, a Chinese actress, philanthropist, and social media influencer, posted messages in her Weibo in support of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Yet, social media users quickly interpreted this supportive message of the refugee program as encouraging people to "accept and receive refugees" (jieshou nanmin) into China. Particularly, the category of Middle Eastern refugees elicited most criticism in China's cyberspace. As the inclusion of refugees is an integral part of immigrant multiculturalism, this article examines the limits of multicultural imagination of refugees―particularly those from the Middle Eastern and North Africa―in contemporary China. I argue that the limits of multicultural imagination in contemporary China is profoundly shaped by an intricate interweaving of domestic policies and global imaginaries toward refugees. By deploying a mixed methodology, such limits are examined from legal-institutional, ideological, and sociocultural perspectives. More specifically, three interrelated aspects will be highlighted in the article: (1) the global circulation of right-wing populism imaginaries, and their entanglements with the anti-Muslim sentiments in contemporary China; (2) the current insufficiency of the legal-institutional framework regarding refugees and asylum-seekers, which needs to be contextualized in China's modern history of dealing with refugee issues; (3) population politics, the rise of Han-centric nationalism, and their constraining impact on the interpretation of historical events related to cultural diversity. In conclusion, this article also offers potential implications for further examining the different yet potentially intersected genealogies of multicultural imaginaries beyond the Middle Eastern and North African refugees in Asia.

• 영미문화
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.49-72
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• 2010

As the first of Philip Roth's recent series of novels that delve into American Cold War history deeply entwined with the post-war Jewish American experience, American Pastoral traces the tragic fall of a third-generation Jewish American named Seymour "Swede" Levov, whose dream of complete assimilation to the post-ethnic American paradise is irrecoverably disrupted when his young daughter blows up the local post office to protest against the Vietnam War. This essay proposes to examine Swede Levov's interrupted pursuit of the American dream by locating it within specific Cold War contexts and national imaginaries propagated particularly during the years from John F. Kennedy to Lyndon B. Johnson. In so doing, I will argue that Roth presents a paradoxical vision of Jewish American identity that could be acquired by performing perpetual self-effacement and submergence into the non-place of anonymity and doubleness, a mythic location of the post-ethnic Cold War American family. Levov's life becomes true part of the mythic narrative of American history when he realizes that his life, just like the nation's history, is a series of temporalities radically discontinued without any manageable detour ot divine bypass to cross over. Rather than indicating Roth's retraction from the postmodern understanding of subjectivity, the novel's historical realism, I will argue, serves to illuminate the postmodern conditions of American Cold War history and ethnic identity.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제66권
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• pp.184-210
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• 2014

한국 디지털사회의 형성과 발전에는 역사적으로 기술의 굴절적 토착화와 과열된 기술숭배가 자리한다. 역사적으로도 인터넷에서 '신'권위주의적 통제와 억압의 계기적 측면이 과도하게 집중화되고 있는 반면 아래로부터 이용자들의 적극적 시민적 의제 형성을 위한 자율의 움직임은 다른 어느 나라보다 정치적이다. 이 글은 적어도 1990년대 이래 이와 같은 한국의 디지털 기술의 전개 방식에 있어서 국가적 특수성을 보려 한다. 이 글에서 '기술잉여'는 한 사회의 통제 능력 이상으로 과도하게 기술들이 비정상적으로 사회에 착근되는 상황을 지칭한다. '기술잉여사회'란 바로 이와 같은 기술잉여가 누적적으로 나타난 특징적 사회 유형을 지칭한다. 이는 제도정치의 성숙도에 비해 기술과잉과 잉여에 의해 빚어지는 사회 왜곡과 비정상성이 잦은 우리 사회를 상징화한다. 이 글에서는 기술잉여사회의 특성을 유형화하고, 중국, 일본, 미국 등 정보기술 영향력의 경쟁 국가들과의 비교를 통해 한국적 기술발전의 퇴행성을 구체화한다.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.65-95
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• 2014

The recent decades have seen a growing rate of international cooperation in science, technology, and innovation (STI) including in the field of green technologies. However, current approaches to national systems of innovation (NSI) have not kept up with this development. International aspects are rather treated as external conditions within which policymakers operate and respond but not influence. This paper tackles this problem by applying a refined NSI concept that includes an international dimension and complements past frameworks by focusing on those Korean government policies, actors, and activities relevant for the internationalization of STI. Austria and Korea have both formulated differing strategies to acquire international leading positions in the field of innovation and the development of green technologies. In the first step, the paper assesses Korea's international activities within the field of green technologies that transcend national boundaries and establish international connections. The government has still a strong influence on selecting technology areas for strategic funding but our findings show that international STI actors have difficulties in identifying the appropriate point of contact to initiate cooperation or apply for related funding. Second, an external perspective on Korea's international collaborations in the field of green technologies is offered. Austria has tentatively identified the East Asian country as a second-priority cooperation partner for its future STI internationalization activities. Interviews with Austrian stakeholders in the field of green technologies indicate a high interest in cooperation with Korea that is facilitated by a similar business culture based on personal networks. Moreover, researchers and policymakers referred to a shared need of small countries for intelligent decision-making processes regarding potential cooperation partners abroad. However, in order to enhance awareness, visibility and demand for Korean STI cooperation in European countries, more long-term funding programs featuring a more permanent point of contact should be introduced.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2022

이 글은 전자오락이 1990년대 이후로 디지털 게임에 흡수되었다는 기존의 관점과 달리 현재까지 지속되고 있다고 주장한다. 이를 위해 미디어 고고학이라는 새로운 학문 분야의 관점을 바탕으로 1990년대 말부터 유행한 <펌프>라는 전자오락이 어떤 문화적, 기술적 맥락에서 게이머들에게 수용되고, 소비되어왔는지 추적한다. 펌프의 대유행은 게이머들의 창조적 게임 수행이라는 수행적 전환을 통해 일어났으며, 게임의 흥망성쇠는 게임을 둘러싼 각 주체들이 가졌던 상상들과 실천들의 경합과 상호작용을 통해 일어난 것이다. 결론에서 다양한 장르의 아케이드 게임들에 대한 미디어 고고학적인 본격적 연구의 필요성을 제시한다.