Applications of Foucault's Theory

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Authors

KIM Jeong-a
Academy of philosophy, Seoul, South Korea
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9845-5748

Keywords:

Michel Foucault , Governmentality , Biopolitics , Thanatopolitics , Cultural Policy , Postcolonialism , Media Representation

Synopsis

As you can see from the title, this book deals with the application of the theories of French modern philosopher Michel Foucault to various fields.

I am a person who wants to give meaning to philosophy not as a simple theory or concept, but as something that should be applied and changed in various places of humans and our society.

To this end, I have collected the articles I have written in the past 5 or 6 years.

In 2017, I worked as an intern at the ICCS Research Institute of Taiwan Chiao Tung University for a short time, and since then, I have posted articles titled “Cultural Government of the Samjiyeon Orchestra in North Korea” and “Crash Landing on abnormality” a short essay on the Korean drama “Crash Landing on You” on the ICCS site.

Also, during the COVID-19 period, I posted articles titled “Juche” and “Shaking Korea in the time of Coronavirus” in French on the French site ici et ailleurs. After that, in 2024, “Plant Collection of   missionary Emile Taquet and Eurocentrism”, was published in French on the same site. These three articles in French were translated into English and collected together in this book.

The remaining two articles, about “Programming of liberalism in the film Parasite” and about the Korean painter “Pen Varlen” in Russia, were written when I gave lectures and made presentations in Korea.

Through these articles, I hope to easily approach readers by applying Michel Foucault's theories, which were somewhat difficult, to various fields.

And I hope that they will help readers to suggest directions for their lives and serve as a practical echo.

References

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Park Ji-Eun (Writer) & Lee Jeong-Hyu (Director). (2019). Crash Landing on You [Television broadcast]. South Korea: Studio Dragon.

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KIM Jeong-a, Biopolitique et Thanatopolitique en Coree du Nord, Universite Paris8, 2014, p.21-22

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Jeong-a, K. . (2025). Applications of Foucault’s Theory. Deep Science Publishing. https://doi.org/10.70593/978-93-7185-833-5
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