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Hyun Ki-young's One Spoon on this Earth is a coming of age novel that explores the identity as a child of nature. Through the concrete senses, the scenes of past recollections are often unfolded. The artist also described the passages in which the senior who is in a senseless state doesn't recognize himself, but only asks for the hizikia fusiforme extracting soup. This is a reflection of Hyun Ki-young's view that humans should be judged with sense rather than reason. Hyun Ki-young's understanding of humanity, which emphasizes the superiority of senses, can secure the legitimacy of logic as an affect theory. As the affect theory reveals the post-modern intention to newly define human beings, One Spoon on this Earth, which is written based on the sensory superiority, needs to be approached in such context. In addition, in One Spoon on this Earth, the artist suggests that he is the 'molecule of nature'. This is the recognition that nature, which is the basic system of world operation, was established first, and then everything including Hyun Ki-young, can be said to be defined as being separated from it. It corresponds to the <Whole―positioner world view>. In this work, the artist perceives himself as a homology with natural objects and measuring one's growth against the natural environment is based on this world view. The modern times set each individual as a basic unit and then identify their group as a society. It is called <Positioner-whole world view>. Thus, this world view of One Spoon on this Earth can also be understood as an anti-modern view. Earlier, Hyun Ki-young revealed the tradition of Jeju communitarianism that confronted the foreign world through Howling Bird in the Border, and Island Riding the Wind has reproduced the appearance of the Jeju community based on the natural order. In the perspective of the growth of autonomous individuals running a community (communitarianism), One Spoon on this Earth is an extension of this sort.

One Spoon on this Earth, Nature, Affect Theory, Post-modern, <Whole- positioner world view>, Communitarianism