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The History, Status and Prospectives of ‘Machine Critics’ in Korea
Journal of Popular Narrative
2016,
22(1), pp.145-180
DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2016.22.1.004
Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research
DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2016.22.1.004
Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research
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‘Machine Critics’ is not the only critical methods to deal with mechanical knowledge. ‘Machine Critics’ is a practical effort to understand the human life and culture associated with the machine in a comprehensive way. With the advent of instrumental humans(“Homo Faber”) and the machine is indispensable to human existence itself was a background. In the light of modern society in general knowledge that comes by the result of complex interactions of humanities revival and Industrial Revolution is a key organizing principle of human reason to understand the mechanical modernity. Moreover, when the State and the Capital secured the machine and look back on the history of representation and working actively used in modern state governance and the principles governing mechanisms, it is also the reason for the liberation of the mechanical problems that can not be postponed anymore. ‘Science and Technology’ in Korea and ‘Technology Philosophy’ is still poor, and poverty. ‘Machine Critics’ is also not yet fully caught criticism field position. ‘Machine Critics’ was the first attempt by the Lee Youngjun in the mid-2000s. The critically inherited the flow of ‘Machine Critics’ is enabled in Korea since the 1990s ‘Cultural Studies’. ‘Cultural Studies’ and ‘Machine Critics’ is expected to share the practical critique modernity and social change. On the other hand, ‘Machine Critics’ is a feature that points directly targeted machine and try a comprehensive analysis of the life, culture and politics and philosophy associated with it at the same time to deal with professionally. ‘Machine Critics’ cracks in the old traditions of Korea are separated by academics field that the ‘Human Arts’ and ‘Science and Technology’. Elimination of barriers between discipline system and who will emerge as potential knowledge to pursue consilience and fusion. However, ‘Machine Critics’ performance are still sporadic and is associated with heterogeneously observed. Research papers and lectures, publications are a general aspect of its advanced process and appear in a different format and order of the existing studies are awarded to the attention of the media and academia. ‘Machine Critics’ is a claim to a bridge between the Humanities and Engineering and it is also a new challenge to overcome even the existing convergence limit.
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