@article{ART003260645},
author={YANG SOYEON},
title={Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics},
journal={Journal of Popular Narrative},
issn={1738-3188},
year={2025},
volume={31},
number={3},
pages={243-273}
TY - JOUR
AU - YANG SOYEON
TI - Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics
JO - Journal of Popular Narrative
PY - 2025
VL - 31
IS - 3
PB - The Association of Popular Narrative
SP - 243
EP - 273
SN - 1738-3188
AB - This study examines whether the self-narratives of ordinary participants in Korean entertainment programs function not only as sources of empathy and healing but also as political acts that reveal subjectivity.
Focusing on Ask Anything (Mueosideun Mureobosal), the paper analyzes speech acts that confront social stigma and institutional repression. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of parrhesia and Jacques Rancière’s theory of aesthetic politics, the study explores how truth-telling in asymmetrical power relations may involve ethical courage and political significance. While participants’ confessions sometimes align with conditions of parrhesia, the media format simultaneously limits their political potential by framing speech within entertainment logics.
This research contributes to understanding how mediated self-expression can become a site of political agency, suggesting that popular entertainment may function as a contested arena for public discourse and subject formation.
KW - Parrhesia;Care of the self;Michel Foucault;Jacques Rancière;Entertainment programs featuring ordinary people
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YANG SOYEON. (2025). Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics. Journal of Popular Narrative, 31(3), 243-273.
YANG SOYEON. 2025, "Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics", Journal of Popular Narrative, vol.31, no.3 pp.243-273.
YANG SOYEON "Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics" Journal of Popular Narrative 31.3 pp.243-273 (2025) : 243.
YANG SOYEON. Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics. 2025; 31(3), 243-273.
YANG SOYEON. "Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics" Journal of Popular Narrative 31, no.3 (2025) : 243-273.
YANG SOYEON. Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics. Journal of Popular Narrative, 31(3), 243-273.
YANG SOYEON. Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics. Journal of Popular Narrative. 2025; 31(3) 243-273.
YANG SOYEON. Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics. 2025; 31(3), 243-273.
YANG SOYEON. "Practical Implications of Entertainment Programs Featuring Ordinary People - Focusing on Foucault's Parrhesia and Rancière's Concept of Aesthetic Politics" Journal of Popular Narrative 31, no.3 (2025) : 243-273.
