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The South Korean response to the COVID-19 pandemic was mainly characterized—whether positively or negatively—as the efficient implementation of surveillance supported by the extensive deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Yet, the fact that the South Korean management of the pandemic was also maintained by citizens' voluntary participation in stringent quarantine policies has received little critical attention. Through the lens of techno-politics, this essay examines the distinctive interplay of digital monitoring systems and civic engagement in South Korea during the pandemic, with particular reference to data surveillance, horizontal collectivism, and a networked multitude. In capturing the essential features of South Korean pandemic politics as reflecting key components of techno-populism, this essay draws out some social theoretical implications of reconsidering the increasingly close relationship between technology and democracy in the pandemic period. (Pac Aff / GIGA)

Este ensaio reexamina tese de Walter Benjamin da estetização da política relacionando-a ao desenvolvimento das mídias de massa e à crise da democracia. Essa tese é o ponto central tanto de sua concepção da crise da democracia liberal quanto da ascensão do fascismo. O estudo da análise de Benjamin sobre a interação entre a política fascista e as mídias de massa leva a uma consideração crítica da função do espetáculo político na era da mídia e aponta sua relevância para nossa compreensão crítica da ligação entre as novas mídias e a democracia, seja ela a "nova" ou a "antiga".

This essay is primarily concerned with Walter Benjamin's analysis of the newspaper as a media space with reference to privatization of urban space, industrialization of public communication, and mediazation of public space in nineteenth-century Paris. I seek to show how the information industry brought about the fundamental changes in literary practice, intellectual activity, and the formation of a new social subject. I also demonstrate how Benjamin's rich illustration of the complex dynamics of media space in the nineteenth century largely avoids the shortcomings of oversimplification embedded in the analysis of the bourgeois public sphere. In doing so, I argue Benjamin's critical analysis that the newspaper provides a systematic framework by which to examine the intersection between the media space and the urban experience in a digital age. Adapted from the source document.

Este ensaio se ocupa principalmente do exame dos aspectos metodológicos da concepção de historiografia materialista de Benjamin, a que eu chamo de crítica da cultura (Kulturkritik). Com a noção de Kulturkritik, quero distinguir a análise de Benjamin de "teorias" da cultura e ressaltar sua preocupação crítica com o conceito de "cultura". Ao fazê-lo, quero explicitar os imperativos metodológicos do exame da modernidade como espetáculo. Ainda, também procuro mostrar que a crítica da cultura de Benjamin é significativamente diferente da Ideologiekritik desenvolvida pelos integrantes originais do Institut fur Sozialforschung [Instituto de Pesquisa Social].

Dans cet article, nous explorons deux aspects interconnectés de la pensée de Walter Benjamin qui ont reçu une attention limitée : la figure du peintre chinois comme un exemple d'art traditionnel et la réflexion de Benjamin sur les tableaux chinois que l'on retrouve dans une chronique artistique à propos d'une exposition tenue à Paris en 1937. Lire de façon combinée ces réflexions sur les artistes chinois et l'art offre un point de vue particulier et intéressant sur des concepts familiers de la théorie benjaminienne comme l'image de pensée ( Denkbild ) et l'image dialectique. En effet, nous soutenons que la notion de ink-play peut contribuer à notre compréhension du concept de modernité.

Exposé. Mass and propaganda. An inquiry into fascist propaganda -- Totalitarian propaganda -- Abridged restricted schema -- Schemata -- Disposition -- The conquest of Europe on the screen : the Nazi newsreel, 1939-40 -- The Hitler image -- Below the surface : project of a test film -- Re-education program for the Reich -- How and why the public responds to the propagandist -- Popular advertisements -- A duck crosses Main Street -- National types as Hollywood presents them -- Deluge of pictures -- Appeals to the Near and Middle East : implications of the communications studies along the Soviet periphery -- Attitudes toward various communist types in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia -- Proposal for a research project designed to promote the use of qualitative analysis in the social sciences -- The challenge of qualitative content analysis -- On the relation of analysis to the situational factors in case studies -- The social research center on the campus : its significance for the social sciences and its relations to the university and society at large.

"This collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It covers the first phase of the pandemic that will help future scholars to contextualize the history of the present. It includes interpretations by leading scholars in anthropology, food studies, history, media studies, political science, and visual studies, who examine the political, social, economic, and cultural impact of COVID-19 in China, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and beyond"--