PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2024. "Yŏgong Between the Compulsion of Production and Modern Desire," Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, 17(1), pp. 51–73.
2024. "Book forum: global libidinal economy," with Ilan Kapoor, Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, Pieter de Vries, Hasmet Uluorta, Hannah Richter and María Gómez, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 25(1), pp. 108–133.
2023. "The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature," with Sirma Altun, Madelaine Moore, Adam David Morton, Matthew Ryan, Riki Scanlan and Austin Hayden Smidt, Review of International Political Economy, 30(2), pp. 584–607.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2024. "Brighter than Ten Thousand Suns? Doreen Chapman, VNS Matrix and Serwah Attafuah at the 24th Sydney Biennale," Arena Quarterly, 18, pp. 36–40.
2023. "Rubbing/Loving: Do Ho Suh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia," Arena Quarterly, 15, pp. 87–92.
2022. "Toward Collective Intellectual Labour; Or, How Seven Critical Scholars Got Along With Each Other And Co-Authored A Journal Article," with Sirma Altun, Madelaine Moore, Adam David Morton, Matthew Ryan, Riki Scanlan and Austin Hayden Smidt. In: Progress in Political Economy.
2022. "Travelling With Lukács," with Sirma Altun, Madelaine Moore, Adam David Morton, Matthew Ryan, Riki Scanlan and Austin Hayden Smidt. In: Progress in Political Economy.
2022. "Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology." In: Progress in Political Economy.
2022. "Heller On Needs, Or How To Think Radically In A Quantified World," with the Value, Health and Radical Needs Reading Group. In: Progress in Political Economy.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Drive and Desire as Categories of Immanent Social Critique. Journal article.
The Developmental Unconscious: Labour and Enjoyment in Korea’s Developmental Era. Book project.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
20-21 October 2023 - 2023 Situations International Conference: Neoliberal Asia and its Precarious Others, Grand Hyatt Jeju, Korea. Paper presented (in person): “Yŏgong Between the Compulsion of Production and Modern Desire.”
9-11 June 2023 - 2023 International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) Conference, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea. Paper presented (in person): “Desire and Drive as Categories of Immanent Social Critique.”
21-24 October 2022 - United Nations and Korean War (1950-1953): Politics, War and Peace Conference, Pusan National University, Korea. Paper presented (online): “The United Nations, the Korean War and the Unification of Capital.”
4-5 February 2022 - 12th Korean Studies Association of Australasia 2021 Biennial Conference and 6th 2021 KSAA Postgraduate Workshop, Monash University. Paper presented (in person): “Surplus-Modernity: Park Chung Hee’s Developmental Unconscious.”
2-3 September 2021 - 2021 Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students Conference, University of Edinburgh. Paper presented (online): “Surplus-Modernity: Park Chung Hee’s Developmental Unconscious.”
24-25 September 2020 - School of Social and Political Sciences HDR Research Event, University of Sydney. Paper presented (online): “The Enjoyment of Being a Leader: Fantasy and Misrecognition in Korea’s Saemaul (New Village) Movement.”
17 July 2020 - 2020 Melbourne Metropolitan Korean Studies Biennial Meeting, Monash University, Melbourne. Paper presented (online): “The Enjoyment of Being a Leader: Fantasy and Misrecognition in Korea’s Saemaul (New Village) Movement.”
4-6 December 2019 - The Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) 11th Biennial Conference: Korea in the Age of Precarity and Global Success, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth. Paper presented (in person): “Industrial Workers, Fantasmatic Warriors: Rethinking the Korean Developmentalist Subject with Marx and Lacan.”
9-11 May 2019 - LACK iii Psychoanalysis and Separation Conference, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Paper presented (in person): “Unveiling the Subject of Capitalist Development: Foucault contra Lacan.”
14-15 February 2019 - 10th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Workshop, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth. Paper presented (in person): “Rethinking the Korean Developmental State? A Subjective Critique of the Institutionalist Approach to Korean Developmental Ideas.”
20-21 November 2018 - Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Postgraduate Workshop, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth. Paper presented (in person): “Rethinking the Korean Developmental State? A Subjective Critique of the Institutionalist Approach to Korean Developmental Ideas.”
Shin Hak-Chul (신학철), Mirage (신기루), 1984. Image credit: National Institute of Korean History.