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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A tale of two futures--North and South Korea at the Shanghai World Expo

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I am deeply disappointed that I can't travel to Shanghai to see the national theater that is the World Expo. With both Koreas plotting...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Review: Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks

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Over the past couple of years, a rising trend: ethnographic explorations of gaming and RPG's. The anthropological ones have been inter...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Notes from the Ethnographic Archive

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Web 2.0 has stimulated ethnographic desire--the archiving of vast records of everyday life in the form of videos and podcasts. The Gamer...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Images of Futures Past from Dajeon's 1993 World Expo--꿈의 벽--The Wall of Dreams

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Robert Fletcher on Cory Doctorow

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There's a nice piece on Cory Doctorow by Robert Fletcher in the current issue of Science Fiction Studies (SFS).  It surprised me a lit...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Imagining a Unified Korea, Part I--파란 달 아래와 국가의 사생활

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A nation like Korea that has been artificially partitioned (분단) necessarily spends considerable resources planning for unification. Inde...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

A Little Korean Science Fiction: 카이와판돔의 번역에 과하여 (Concerning the Translation of Kaiwapandom)

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Lee Young-do's "Concerning the Translation of Kaiwapandom" appeared in an anthology of Korean science fiction, Alternative Dre...