Beschreibung:
The unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Crisis1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and RepetitionPart II: Reparation3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority QuestionPart III: Peace and Human Rights6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free LaborConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex