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Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)

2025/2/7
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Steve Choe: 我认为这本书考察了一种后政治的局面,即从电影中政治的再现向伦理逻辑的转变。这本书借鉴了大量的理论家、历史背景和电影,我认为这本书具有难以置信的价值。我认为这本书在政治、伦理和当代心理方面与当前正在发生的事件产生共鸣。 Seung-hoon Jeong: 我很高兴能与你讨论我的书,你的作品我也非常欣赏。自那以后,我花了近十年时间研究全球电影。我对全球电影的最初想法可能源于我研究生时期参加 Dudley Andrew 和 Thomas Elsasser 的研讨会。我想以自己的方式重新构建世界电影的概念,同时观看课程中讨论的一些新电影。朗西埃对后政治的批判启发我思考全球化时代的主要问题,以及如何从后政治但重要的伦理角度解决这些问题。1990年代被认为是全球化的美好时期,一切都可以融入一个新的同质世界。2000年代以9/11恐怖袭击开始,这显示了全球化的另一面,它并非简单美好,而是有很多裂痕和问题。在过去的二十年里,许多电影以某种方式反映了这种双面全球化,一方面有很多联系,另一方面有很多灾难。当涉及到全球灾难时,电影非常擅长并且对这种新变化做出了反应。我在纽约大学阿布扎比分校获得了第一份工作,这让我有空间教授一些跨学科课程,我创建了灾难课程。全球灾难如何在电影和其他媒体中被呈现和反映,以及我们如何批判性地、概念性地解决它们。我在某种意义上以两种方式离开了全球化的双面性,阿布扎比在各方面都非常多元文化和开放,但它也被全球化的负面症状所包围。

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This chapter explores the book's genesis, tracing the author's intellectual journey from studying cinematic interfaces to focusing on global cinema. It highlights the influence of professors Dudley Andrew and Thomas Elsaesser, and the impact of Jacques Rancière's critique of post-politics on the author's thinking. The author describes their personal experiences and observations of globalization's dual nature, shaping their approach to the book.
  • The book's concept originated during the author's graduate studies.
  • The author's experience of multiculturalism and conflict in Abu Dhabi influenced their perspective.
  • The author's work explores the dual nature of globalization, encompassing both positive integration and negative consequences.

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If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two conflicting ethical facets of globalization: the ‘soft-ethical’ inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their ‘hard-ethical’ symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. 

Reflecting both and suggesting their alternatives, global cinema draws attention to new changes in subjectivity and community that Jeong investigates in terms of biopolitical ‘abjection’ and ethical ‘agency.’ In this frame, Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema) (Oxford UP, 2023) explores a vast net of post-1990 films circulating in both the mainstream market and the festival circuit. Ultimately, the book renews critical discourses on global issues––including multiculturalism, catastrophe, sovereignty, abjection, violence, network, nihilism, and atopia––through a core cluster of political, ethical, and psychoanalytic philosophies.

**Seung-hoon Jeong **is Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts at California State University Long Beach. He is the author of Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory after New Media, co-translator of the Korean edition of Jacques Derrida’s Acts of Literature, and co-editor of The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema and Thomas Elsaesser’s The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology.

Steve Choe is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University who researches and teaches in film and media theory. He is the author of Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany (2014), Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium (2016) and ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin (2023). He is the co-editor of Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia (2019) and editor of the Handbook for Violence in Film and Media (2022).

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