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Letters from the Depthless Deep

  • Lisa Min (author)
Chapter of: Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State(pp. 48–53)

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TitleLetters from the Depthless Deep
ContributorLisa Min (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.04
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightLisa Min
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2024-10-27
Long abstractIn contrast to the blacklining of classified documents, the bureaucratic redactions that symbolize a certain aura of political power, this work seeks corners, the most intimate and silent of spaces, produced both because of and as a necessary embrace of the redacted political. As a reflection on the challenge of writing about North Korea within an overarching "totalitarian" framework that seeks to uncover hidden truths, that ceaselessly searches for hidden meanings in the veil of the black, I propose an approach that leaves me, implicated. In a series of “letters” to North Korea, I use redaction as form, as form-making of a particular kind of sociality that exists between, through, and ultimately because of the very space of redaction.
Page rangepp. 48–53
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • redaction
  • negativity
  • form
  • sociality
  • North Korea
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Lisa Min

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Lisa Min is an anthropologist based in Seoul, teaching courses on politics and visuality at Yonsei University. She is currently working on two book projects that begin with north Korea, that open up the “place called north Korea” as a question and provocation for doing and writing anthropology.