The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea

✍ Scribed by Hyun Ok Park

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.

The unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Crisis
1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question
2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition
Part II: Reparation
3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee
4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor
5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question
Part III: Peace and Human Rights
6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony
7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value
8. Spectacle of T’albuk: Freedom and Free Labor
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index