청년문화론에서의 ‘문화/정치’의 경계 문제

Abstract

It is impossible to argue about youth culture in 1960s~1970s without premising the April Revolution. Because the minor generation experiencing the April Revolution is the subject of ‘youth culture’ formed at the end of the 1960s. The political consciousness inculcated after the April Revolution begins to decay rapidly after 5·16 military coup. As the subject of Revolution returned to their everyday lives in the repression of military regime, there is a serious crack between consciousness and behavior. The Self-governing subjects in the April Revolution returned to the helpless subject again. College Students’ voluntary ‘new life movement’ got to lose even the subjective will because of being absorbed into the military regime’s policies, and the new phenomenon called ‘youth culture’ became to occur in the late 1960s. ‘Youth culture’ seemed to take passive or unconscious resistance against system, but this was basically no more than a form of culture as indirect or suppressed politics. In this regard, it is supposed that ‘youth culture’ in the military regime occured in the process that political youth get down to de-political one. It is enough to say that the April Revolution symbolized by Kim, Ju-Youl dominated the time as a form of repetition compulsion, which shows exactly what ‘youth culture’was short of. And Lim Joong-Bin is likely to say what is the nature of ‘youth culture’, claiming that one shift ‘youth culture’ into student movement by inscribing the student movement to youth culture for the cultural revolution preceding a political revolution. The nature of ‘youth culture’ is just crack itself forming a boundary line of ‘Politics’ and ‘culture’. The very boundary line and crack are depth of ‘youth culture’, and give us a perspective to understand the source of youth culture.