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SUMMARY: The Optics of Mutant Vectors: Run-away Neoliberalism in Post-IMF K
 orean Science Fiction Cinema
DESCRIPTION: Exploring South Korean cinema in the wake of the Asian financi
 al crisis\, Joseph Jeon observes the use of “secondorder representations” –
  the fantastic and/or technologically mediated means of instantiation – as 
 a way of diagnosing the problematics of economic institutions in Vicious Ci
 rcuits: Post-IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century (2019).
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><img src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp
 -content/uploads/sites/5/2020/01/Banner-Dr.-Haerin-Shin.png" /></p><p>Haeri
 n Shin is an assistant professor of English\, with secondary appointments i
 n Asian Studies and Cinema & Media Arts. Shin works on late twentieth and t
 wenty first century fiction and media across American/Asian American/Korean
 /Japanese literature. Her research focuses on telepresence technology\, dig
 ital/visual media aesthetics\, and the ontology of alterity concerning race
  and ethnicity. Past and forthcoming publications include essays on techno-
 Orientalism\; the affective contours of apocalyptic and disaster fiction an
 d film\; cyber fandom and trolling\; alternative temporalities in digital f
 ilm techniques\; posthuman race politics and spirituality\, etc. Currently 
 wrapping up her first book\, <em>Technology of Presence: Being and Reality 
 in the Age of Cyberculture\,</em> Dr. Shin is beginning to work on her seco
 nd project on Asian American speculative fiction\, tentatively titled <em>T
 echnology of Alienation</em>.</p><h3><a href="https://ckr.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
 files/2020/01/Poster-Dr.-Haerin-Shin-4-min.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopen
 er">Event Poster</a></h3>
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