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1Theorizing Korean transracial adoptee experiences: Ambiguity, substitutability, and racial embodimentInternational Journal of Cultural Studies 24 (2): 309-324. 2021.This article articulates a critical phenomenological account of the being of the Korean transracial adoptee, through an analysis of three fundamental interrelated experiences. First, I argue that adoptee being is marked by epistemological ambiguity, or the impossibility of knowing and the ambiguous value of any knowledge gained. Second, the arbitrary sense of one’s place and identity contribute to a sense of substitutability among adoptees. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the body schema, …Read more
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4“The Animal is like a Quiet Force”: Emergence and Negativity in Agamben and Merleau-PontyChiasmi International 15 251-267. 2013.The concept of natural, common life is distinguished from life as political existence in the opening lines of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer – a schism within ‘life’ that has profound consequences for Agamben’s political theory and ontology. Agamben claims that bare life now “dwells in the biological body of every living being”. As such, it is necessary to ascertain what the ‘life’ of biopolitics is – the life capable of politicization. The notion of natural living being is central to Agamben’s ac…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |