잠행, 또는 언더그라운드의 운동 - 이북명의 「현대의 서곡」을 통해 -

Abstract

The reality of the colonial/imperial world depends on whether the world’s language-law-media fields are formed and work in effect. The colonial/imperial language-law-media field is the effect of the interaction of devices-represented by language, law, and media-that justify a false world built nervously on an infinite, accidental, fluid, unpredictable flow. But beyond this field, which hides the colonial original accumulation[ursprüngliche Akkumulation], there is Underground. As part of the work of understanding the way the colonial/imperial Underground work out, this article looks at the movement form of Underground activists who intentionally ‘travel incognito’ outside or in the gap of the language-law-media of the colony/empire. For this reason, this article focuses on the aspects of “traveling incognito,” which appears in the novel “Overture of Modern times[현대의 서곡](1936) written by Lee Buk-myeong. By imitating a colonial identification system that is stuck through aliases, camouflage and acting, "traveling incognito" paradoxically seeks an invisible road in the blind spot of the identification system. The aliases of the people who travel incognito lead to a movement that is dispersed into individual beings accessing multiple networks, and their camouflage and acting lead to practices of crossing the dividing line under the dominant identification system. "Traveling incognito" leads to discoveries that activate the potential of the road under the state of exception of the road.