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"Here, This Speck and This Speck That You Missed": A Poetics of the Archive in Myung Mi Kim's Commons

  • Kim, Eui Young
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.56 no.6
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    • pp.1119-1133
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    • 2010

  • This paper explores Myung Mi Kim's poetics of the archive in Commons. Commons begins with a gesture that critiques a prior act of archivization: "Here, this speck and this speck that you missed." As the poems accrue in the book, Commons demonstrates the desire to record those experiences that have been neglected by the architects of traditional archives while at the same time interrogating the very logic of the archive. Crucial to that interrogation is the poetic form. Kim's attempt to archive silences and gaps leads to a radical experiment with form and language. It reformulates the archive as an open system amenable to interruption, extension, and revision. I examine in detail the techniques that contribute to her poetics of the archive, a poetics that draws the readers out of the narrow confines of their personal experiences and their political identities. By juxtaposing Kim's poems with her statements of poetics given as interviews, this paper connects the project of Commons to Kim's larger concern with open form and experimental writing. I argue that the "difficulty" of her poetry should be reinterpreted as a demand that her text makes on the readers to broaden their terms of engagement. The linguistic experiment of Commons provides an occasion to rethink the habitual ways in which time is experienced, national histories are written, and literary works are consumed.

Durability and Mechanical Properties of Concrete with Blending Ratio of Re-mi -con Sludge (레미콘 슬러지 혼입률에 따른 콘크리트 내구성 및 역학적 특성)

  • Kim, Kang-Rea;Jo, Gyou-Jea;Kim, Myung-Yu;Park, Jin-Ho;Yang, Eun-Ik
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2005.05b
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    • pp.493-496
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    • 2005

  • The Re-mi-con sludge water has been investigated because of environmental pollution and disposal cost. So, sludge water is partially reused as mixing water. However, if sludge water is reused too much that would influence the quality of concrete. KS specification limits the amount of sludge content up to 3$\%$ of cement weight. In this study, the effect of re-mi-con sludge on the characteristics of concrete is compared to raise the reuse ratio of re-mi-con sludge. From the test results, as blending ratio of re-mi-con sludge increases, workability is decreases. However, the re-mi-con sludge water have a minor effect on the strength development, the drying shrinkage and the resistance of freeze and thawing. Also, the existing model codes of drying shrinkage do not coincide with the test results of this study.

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