The offices of biotech company Lumon are empty. Hallways and rooms are bare, though not totally insipid. Once exiting the corridors, workers’ units bear a splash of colour — green…
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Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
An Introduction to “Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics”
Are we all minimalist now? In early 2019, U.S. news organizations reported a surge of clothing and other donations to charity shops, a surge they called the Marie Kondo effect.1…
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Contemporaries Essays, The Hallyu Project
Contemporaries Essays, The Hallyu Project
Embodying K-Pop in Public: The (Inter-)Subjective Kinesthesia in K-Pop Random Play Dance
The Popularization of K-pop Random Play Dance From the streets along Hongdae to shopping malls in China, from New York Times Square to Chicago’s Chinatown, K-pop dances are more frequently…
Contemporaries Essays, The Hallyu Project
Bots and Binaries: On the Failure of Human Verification
In online tests of human verification, K-pop fans will often fail. A song looped on Spotify too many times, a track purchased and then re-purchased on the same music site,…
Contemporaries Essays, The Hallyu Project
“Don’t Let Me Fly”: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7
When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure,…
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When Korean Wave Flows Back: The Ethnic Face of Hallyu in Korean Television Audition Programs
On April 6, 2018, WJSN, a Korean girl group, performed a traditional Indian dance with fake mustaches on an episode of TvN’s Super TV. The members attempted to make a…