• 조형예술학연구
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• 제3권
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• pp.178-224
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• 2001

This thesis aims to suggest the notion of the sublime as one of the common elements of contemporary plastic arts, as a new key for the reading of our visual environment. The concept of sublimity has been one of important categories in traditional aesthetics since the eighteenth century; beyond the domain of this tradition, however, it is rigorously investigated in sociology, literary criticism, visual art theory and post-structuralist philosophy, especially the investigation of post-modern conditions by Jean-Fran cois Lyotard. Jean-Fran cois Lyotard defines sublimity as the elemental feature of the late twentieth century visual arts based on post-structuralism and suggests the feeling of the sublime as dominant sensibility in post-modern society. According to Lyotard, the sublime is a contradictory feeling of pleasure mixed with suffering as in the theory of experimental avant-gardes; the post-modern sublimity is the feeling of suffering or agony when we feel in confronting the new and the unknown. The investigation of the sublime based on Lyotard's perspectives, therefore, is meaningful in decoding contemporary visual arts. This investigation, therefore, mainly deals with the post-modern concept of the sublime and contemporary visual arts viewed in the sublime.

• 조형예술학연구
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• 제5권
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• pp.159-174
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• 2003

'Fantasy', the central notion of this essay, is discussed here more as a new paradigm in order to describe the structure of a work of art than as a stylistic characteristic proper to a specific genre of art. It means the whole situation and experience produced by two connected terms 'corporeal subject - screen'. Roland Barthes explained the 'semiographic painting' by Andre Masson as a field in which happens a certain connexion between the impulse of subject and the image, which views the painting not as a physical object but as a 'cinematic screen' ; painting may be redefined as a dream or a fantasy of the corporeal subject. And such an idea of 'art as fantasy' is closely related to the recent theoretical attempts consisting in abolishing the vision-centered conception of art since Renaissance. In this essay, the notion of fantasy as an aesthetic model is sketched by means of the Freud's notes on the fantasy 'A child is being beaten' and Lyotard's more advanced analyse on its attributes and operations. In Lyotard's analysis, fantasy is defined as a 'bloc' or a 'matrix-figure' featuring simultaneous conversion between the active and the passive, sadism and masochism, and coexistence of imcompossible meanings. In this sense, fantasy may be given to us as an analogical model from which we can outline the aesthetic characteristics of electronic media art involving virtual reality and interactivity.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.200-210
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• 2022

본고의 목적은 히라타 오리자의 세 희곡, 과학하는 마음, 북방한계선의 원숭이, 발칸동물원을 리오타르의 포스트모던 과학관으로 분석하는 데 있다. 과학과 서사가 각기 독자적인 화용법의 규칙을 따른다고 주장하는 리오타르는 둘 사이의 공약 불가능한 평행성을 이야기한다. 히라타 오리자는 이러한 포스트모던의 세계에서 인간이 서사에 의지하는 양상을 짚어 낸다. 본고는 히라타 오리자의 희곡을 세 가지 측면에서 분석한다. 첫 번째는 거대 서사가 사라진 포스트모던의 세계에서, 방향을 잃고 발달하는 과학 기술 아래 인간이란 존재의 정체성을 규정하는 경계가 희미해지는 지점을 확인한다. 두 번째는 서사에 기대어 세계를 이해하는 인간의 특성으로 인해, 과학 지식과 서사 지식의 평행성이 끊임없이 희석되는 양상을 살펴본다. 끝으로 거대 서사가 사라지고 수행성의 최대화만으로 정당화되고 있는 세계를 향해, 개인이 스스로의 위로로 제기하는 작은 서사의 양상을 파악한다.

• 영미문화
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.111-139
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• 2016

Plato's philosophical importance in western thinking history cannot be understated. Especially his dichotomy system became common to the European traditions of philosophical and scientific discourses by assigning principal value to the presence that is opposed to the absence. Since the ancient Greeks, the concept of presence has been expressed itself in number of ways such as God, Truth, Logos, and center. Derrida called this European thinking "the metaphysics of presence." In order to analyze logocentrism also called the metaphysics of presence in No Telephone to Heaven, I used the term, paralogy that Aristotle did not accept as rules of argumentation but that Lyotard revived it positively as the principle of reason. Lyotard's incredulity towards rationalist theory of modernism is that knowledge can never be certain. Without any ultimate validity, certainty is impossible. Nevertheless, as Fanon said, the colonial world is dominated with a traditional Manichaean world. As a result what remains to the colonized to establish their identities is that of an armed struggle towards the colonizer even though they know it results in the vicious circle of hatred endlessly. Cliff attempted to show this message in her text through the tragic heroine, Clare Savage. Cliff's another critique of modernism's rationalism is shown through the ambiguous sexuality of Harry/Harriot. In this novel, gender plays also a central role by questioning the traditional binary system of sexuality. In this paper, I deconstructed this traditional gender system in terms of Bulter's concept of performitivity. This study will give the text another layer of deconstructive interpretation echoing with the proverb, one tree cannot make a forest.

• 복식
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• 제37권
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• pp.103-118
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to describe the central argument of postmodern theory ; pro-vide a central concept about postmodernism for fashion ; identify the signficance of open fashion in the 20th century. Postmodern is used to refer to a body of social theory, a style of aesthetic expression, and to various social practics and economic conditions. In this paper, postmodern theory is interpreted as an anti-aesthetics propesed by Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Foster. The key principles and consepts of postmodern the-ory reflect and restate assumptions of nihilism influenced by the works of Nietzsche, being synonymous with the phrase philosophy of difference. The death of art, the end of progress, the will to the sublime, and the principle of pure difference support postmodern ideas, which could be the framework to interprete fashion phenomenon in postmodern condition.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제20권
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• pp.225-240
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• 2010

Soon after joining the Canadian Confederation in 1867, the province of Quebec adopted the phrase Je me souviens ("As I recall") as its 'national' motto, although many Qu?b?cois do not remember today what they were supposed to memorize, as collective subject, when their government voted this motion. My thesis is that contrary to other countries which have a strong sense of history based on a secular tradition, this process was more complicated in Quebec - as if a collective memory loss lied at the heart of it's history. Through a rereading of Hubert Aquin's cult novel, Trou de m?moire (in its English translation Blackout), first published in 1968, I try to illustrate this paradox and to emphasize the heuristic functions of memory blanks, gaps and lapses in certain postmodern narratives, after the historical breakdown of "the great narratives" (Lyotard). In this perspective, the example of Quebec, through the voice of one of its more gifted yet controversial novelist, can be seen as emblematic of what happens when the mnemonic impossibility of rewriting history opens up new possibilities for writing fiction.

• 수완나부미
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.137-160
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• 2014

This study explores postmodernism in Vietnamese literature. While there has been much dispute among critics regarding postmodernism in Vietnamese literature, postmodernism is now thought to be something that cannot be denied. Vietnamese postmodernism has Vietnamese characteristics and is strongly influenced by American literature. The structure of some Vietnamese short stories is similar to that of some American writers. In the writings of Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard and Ihab Hassan, for example, we find out many characteristics which are ascribed to postmodern Vietnamese literature. We propose the use of the term 'Lao Tzu discourse'which is to include the main concepts of postmodernism such as chaos, nothingness and fragmentation. We propose that postmodern Vietnamese Literature appeared in the 1940s with the collection, Fall Spring Poems (1942), and is also seen with the prose of Nguyen Khai and Nguyen Minh Chau in the 1980s, and the drama written by Luu Quang Vu in the 1980s. There now exists a large group of postmodern Vietnamese writers, like Le Dat, Thanh Thao, Bao Ninh, Cao Duy Son, Nguyen Ngoc Tu and Nguyen Binh Phuong, among others.

• 수완나부미
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.17-32
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• 2012

This study explores the concept of postmodernism in literature. There are many ideas which have conflicted with each other, but now postmodernism is real concept. We cannot deny. By researching papers of Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Ihab Hassan etc. we find out many characteristics of postmodernism. From that, we propose a conceptual understanding of postmodern literature as follows: Starting from the late 1910s with the poetry of Dadaism (1916), Franz Kafka's prose (Metamorphosis 1915) and drama by Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot 1953), postmodern literature coexists with modern literature and is a thriving form from 1960 on. Postmodernism is opposed to modernism in nature in that it accepts nothingness, chaos, games and intertextuality. It tries to solve some difficult problems of modernism making use of science to free people from a life of darkness and dogma. Postmodernism is associated with the information technology revolution, an economic, scientific and technological boom and rapid urbanization.

• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권32호
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• pp.245-261
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• 2013

본 논문은 타셈 싱 감독의 작품들을 숭고이론과 연관하여 분석하였다. 영화라는 매체가 크게 스펙터클과 내러티브가 맞물리며 작용한다고 볼 때 타셈의 강점은 주로 스펙터클에서 나온다. 타셈의 독특한 스펙터클은 감미롭고 유쾌하다기보다는 기이하고 장엄하며 환상적이다. 미는 감미롭고 긍정적인 쾌이고 숭고는 주체가 파악할 수 있는 것과 주체가 표상들로 나타낼 수 있는 것 사이의 분열이라는 불쾌로부터 유래하는 부정적인 쾌라는 칸트와 리오타르의 전제를 받아들인다면 타셈의 스펙터클은 확실히 미보다는 숭고에 가깝다. <더 폴>은 내러티브적인 측면이나 스펙터클적인 측면에서 모두 타셈의 특성을 잘 보여주는 작품으로, 이 작품을 집중적으로 분석함으로써 타셈의 영화가 주는 숭고미를 관찰할 수 있다. <더 폴>이 다섯 살짜리 소녀를 앞세워 제시하는 '이야기의 상상된 비전'은 거대하고 신비로우며 아이답게 컬러풀하다. 이 작품의 스펙터클은 관객의 상상할 수 있는 한계를 압도적으로 초월하여 경탄을 불러일으키며 숭고를 체험시킨다. 그러나 여기서 중요한 것은 이렇게 스펙터클을 통해 불러일으켜진 숭고가 그것만으로 끝나는 것이 아니라는 점이다. 타셈의 거대한 스펙터클은 영화 속에 묘사된 현실과 상상된 비전 사이를 오가면서 내러티브에 추진력을 더해 관객이 영화의 내적 논리 속으로 몰입하게 만드는 힘으로 작용한다. 그리고 이렇게 이루어진 몰입을 통해 관객은 로이와 알렉산드리아와 함께 하며 그들이 만들어낸 이야기 속 영웅들이 겪는 비극적 모험담을 기꺼이 체험한다. 즉 타셈의 스펙터클이 주는 숭고는 영웅들의 죽음이라는 내러티브적 숭고와 겹치면서 관객으로 하여금 '존재의 고양'을 느끼게 하고, 결국 총체적인 숭고 체험으로 승화되는 것이다.

• 건축역사연구
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2015

This research aims at a critical discourse on the relation between the concepts of the uncanny and posthistoire, on the basis of descriptions in The Architectural Uncanny (1992) by Anthony Vidler. For the purpose, Histories of the Immediate Present (2008), another book by Vidler that discusses posthistoire philosophy to which he is not positive, is also investigated along with the former thesis; and various publications related to the themes by the influential writers such as Freud, Lyotard, Vattimo, and Habermas are referred to, too. Firstly, this paper will illustrate an essential understanding of the uncanny, an outgrowth of the sublime, and the history of posthistoire respectively; and then analyse contexts where the posthistoire was mentioned in The Architectural Uncanny. In the 'Introduction' and 'Losing Face' chapters of the book, this paper argues, the two concepts are connected by the notions of 'repetition' and 'losing the classical facade' as well as the uncanny as 'a metaphor for a fundamentally unlivable modern condition'. Though Vidler's recognition of posthistoire in the two chapters are differently interpreted, each as 'the emptiness of capitalism' and 'the decomposition of representation', both can be understood in terms of 'modernity' that is 'still open'. If modernity is 'an unfinished project' as maintained by Habermas, who Vidler relies on, we need to continue innovative experiments and internal investigations in architectural creation beyond the categories of modernism and postmodernism.