사물과 정동 연구 : 『딕테』와 촛불집회를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper aims to explore contextual meaning of thing and affect and how these are expressed in differential areas such as literary works, ethics, and politics by analyzing Theresa Cha Hak-Kyung's Dictee and recent candle demonstration in Korea. As theoretical scaffoldings, the paper employs Spinoza's theory of affect in Ethica and Gilles Deleuze's adaptation of it as well as such ideas as multitude proposed by Antonio Negri and Michael Hart. The paper first of all delineates genealogy of philosophical inquiries on thing and affect then shifts its focus to Gilles Deleuze's preeminent explanation of affect and affection. These theoretical overviews assist readers to understand this paper's analysis of images in Cha's avant-garde masterpiece, Dictee . The paper mostly delve into series of images and their affect in Dictee : the first series of images of Korean women's faces and affect of joy, the second series of images of Western female martyrs and affect of sadness, the third series of images of multitude and their affect, the fourth series of images of things and thing-affect. In the last part of the paper, I examine political meaning of affect and multitude as well as its power in contemporary society, especially recent candle demonstrations in Korea.