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@article{ART002686242},
author={Doohyun Kwon},
title={Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead},
journal={Journal of Popular Narrative},
issn={1738-3188},
year={2021},
volume={27},
number={1},
pages={133-185},
doi={10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004}

TY - JOUR
AU - Doohyun Kwon
TI - Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead
JO - Journal of Popular Narrative
PY - 2021
VL - 27
IS - 1
PB - The Association of Popular Narrative
SP - 133
EP - 185
SN - 1738-3188
AB - This study is an attempt to connect television drama M, which deals with abortion issues, with theoretical focus such as materiality, relativity, and agency, to understand diffractively as an cartography of agential reality. According to Karen Barard’s Agential Realism, Television drama M is a sociocultural phenomenon produced by the agential intra-actions of material-discursive apparatuses such as medical technology, ghost stories and legends, and male-affect. The 1990s repeatedly revealed “hate” through apparatuses such as technology, discourse, and affect, which are directed at women’s gendered bodies. The material -discursive practice of plastic surgery and abortion proves that the agential reality surrounding the body is closely intertwined with medical technology, as well as with the genderized hate. Another related material-discursive phenomenon is rediscovery of the legend and fad of the ghost story, which is also produced from the hate of the denaturalized body, which is once again expanded and reproduced. Appearing in this environment of affect, M enacts diffraction, which is based on backlash, lacking posthuman implications for the materialization of the techno-body. M puts humanistic assumptions about “Man” as a universal definition, historically framed and defined in context. But it is not universal and it is gendered. The current time when the political turmoil surrounding medical technology, discourse, and bodily matters is violently intra-acted is the time to carefully account and respond to the alternative definitions of human beings that M has rejected.
KW - Agent;Agential Realism;Performative Materialism;Diffraction;Abortion;Gender;Affect;Hate;Technology;Drama;M
DO - 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004
ER -

Doohyun Kwon. (2021). Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead. Journal of Popular Narrative, 27(1), 133-185.

Doohyun Kwon. 2021, "Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead", Journal of Popular Narrative, vol.27, no.1 pp.133-185. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004

Doohyun Kwon "Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead" Journal of Popular Narrative 27.1 pp.133-185 (2021) : 133.

Doohyun Kwon. Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead. 2021; 27(1), 133-185. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004

Doohyun Kwon. "Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead" Journal of Popular Narrative 27, no.1 (2021) : 133-185.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004

Doohyun Kwon. Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead. Journal of Popular Narrative, 27(1), 133-185. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004

Doohyun Kwon. Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead. Journal of Popular Narrative. 2021; 27(1) 133-185. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004

Doohyun Kwon. Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead. 2021; 27(1), 133-185. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004

Doohyun Kwon. "Agent “M”—The Apparatus of “Hate” and Human or Non-Human Beings as Living Dead" Journal of Popular Narrative 27, no.1 (2021) : 133-185.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.004