• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.369-387
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• 2023

This study aims to interpret the experience of science research in a graduate school laboratory from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze's concepts of "agencement" and "becoming". The research was conducted as an autobiographical narrative inquiry. The research text is written in a way that tells the story of my science research experience and retells it from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze. In Deleuze's view, science research is a constantly flowing agencement. The science research agencement is composed of a mechanical agencement of various experimental tools-machines and researcher-machines as well as a collective agencement of speech acts such as biological knowledge, experiment protocols, and laboratory rules. Furthermore, science research agencement is fluid as events occur all over the agencement. Data, as a change occurring in the material dimension, is an event and sign that raises problems. It has the agency to influence agencement through an intersubjective relationship with researchers, and the meaning of data is generated in this process. The change of agencement compelled me to perform science practice. I have performed repeated science practice, meaning that my body has constantly been connected to other machines. As a result of this connection, my body has been affected, and the capacity of my body that constitutes the agencement has been augmented. In addition, I was able to be deterritorialized from the existing science research agencement and reterritorialized in a new science research agencement with data. This process of differentiation allowed me to becoming-scientist. In sum, this study provides implications for science practice-oriented education by exploring the process of becoming-scientist based on my science research experience.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.1-40
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• 2019

Built upon ethnographic method such as participant observation and in-depth interview, this study analyzes the material culture of electronic flower auctions at Yangjae Flower Market. From the viewpoint of Actor-Network Theory(ANT), this research examines how human actors like dealers and auctioneers interact with nonhuman actors such as market devices and these interactions form networks called "agencement." This research is focused on three main objectives: first, to study how the performance of auctions - i.e. the interactions between auctioneers and dealers - change in the wake of new market devices in the auctions; secondly, to look into what changes artifacts bring to the social relationships between auctioneers and dealers; lastly, to analyze the influence of new market devices on auction price in the market. The results of this research are as follows. First, the appearance of new market devices generates changes in the performance of auctions, which means the change of 'agencement' of flower auctions. Direct interactions between auctioneers and dealers turned into indirect interactions through new market devices. Moreover, the changes in the agencement brought changes to the identity of auctioneers and dealers. Secondly, the new agencement caused by the inflow of new market devices formed the trust between the devices and human actors, which gave rise to the trust in electronic auction and in counterpart actors as well. In addition, new market devices lowered direct interactions between auctioneers and dealers and thus made more equal relationships between the two than before. Lastly, market devices like trading screen reduced the leverage of auctioneers by providing dealers with bidding information previously possessed by auctioneers much openly and dealers were able to decide auction prices in more reasonable and dispassionate manner. Economic agency, power, trust, price, and information in the market is material and sensory.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.67
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• pp.119-151
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• 2014

The absence of the commensurable general mass media system theory has been problematic in empirical communication studies. This study first suggests the static mass media system theory based on modified Habermas's two level society, and then develops the dynamic mass media system theory based on the boundary-agencement theory that synthesizes Luhmann's boundary theory and Delueze & Guattari's agencement theory. In the static mass media system theory, the mass media system interpenetrates other social subsystems and the life world as a part of the cultural system coordinated by generalized language media. In the dynamic mass media system theory, the mass media system is a boundary of all social subsystems. The mass media system also articulates its self-referential observations to other-referential observations from other subsystems, mediated interpenetrations between the social subsystems and the life world. Especially, performances in the mass media system deterritorizes social systems to the life world, and reterritorizes the life world to social systems. The general mass media system theory can provide commensurability for various empirical mass media system studies, and prevent biases when researchers choose research topics.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.81-111
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• 2017

In this paper, I focus on the performativity thesis introduced and developed by Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars such as Callon, MacKenzie, etc. since the mid 1990s. The performativity thesis was discussed in economic sociology by STS scholars has been pervaded to other research areas including general economics, accounting, finance and so on. The main idea of the thesis is that economic theories perform, shape, and format economy rather than just describe economy. I show that the thesis is based on the traditional STS ideas such as performativity derived from Merton's self-fulfilling prophecy and the actor-network theory. Although the thesis has been criticised by various researchers from both inside and outside STS, it has provided meaningful implications for understanding economic phenomenon from a viewpoint of STS. Furthermore, reflexive researches for performativity of STS theories can be discussed in the next stage.

• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• v.126
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• pp.191-212
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• 2013

Cet article consiste ${\grave{a}}$ critiquer $l'{\acute{e}}conomie$ libidinale, $subordonn{\acute{e}}e$ ${\grave{a}}$ l'ordre phallique qui coupe les flux libidinaux. La notion lacanienne du $d{\acute{e}}sir$ qui est $focalis{\acute{e}}e$ sur le manque, ne pourrait prendre en compte la dimension $cr{\acute{e}}ative$ et productive du $d{\acute{e}}sir$ qui est $li{\acute{e}}e$ ${\grave{a}}$ la perspective deleuzienne et guattarienne du $d{\acute{e}}sir$. La $possibilit{\acute{e}}$ de la $d{\acute{e}}rive$ et de la $d{\acute{e}}stratification$ des flux libidinaux pourrait se mener vers la notion du "homo surplus", laquelle est la notion $in{\acute{e}}dite$ que j'ai $cr{\acute{e}}e$. Le surplus est ce qui $d{\acute{e}}passe$ la logique phallogocentrique par son $immensurabilit{\acute{e}}$ et sa surabondance. Dans cette perspective, la critique virulente de la notion du plaisir $cantonn{\acute{e}}$ dans la partie $g{\acute{e}}nitale$, $s^{\prime}op{\grave{e}}re$ avec l'analyse de la jouissance qui est non phallique; Cette jouissance non phallique est $li{\acute{e}}e$ ${\grave{a}}$ l'agencement non $lin{\acute{e}}aire$ et multiple des pratiques sexuelles $in{\acute{e}}dites$ et radicales.