[Feature] The World After Globalization and Narratives / Seo Dongjin
The Quarterly Changbi 203, Spring 2024
Abstract
The current issue’s Feature examines the “narratives” through which we have understood the world and how we will understand and write it from now on. Based on a diagnosis that the global narrative models that have existed so far no longer work, due to factors like the climate crisis and the crisis in neo-liberal capitalism, literary critic Seo Dongjin explores the possibility of a new symbolic narrative that mediates individual experience with the totality of capitalism. His argument is particularly interesting: that globalization as we have known it is the state of being “world-less,” a state that erases the world as a horizon where individuals experience and understand outside reality, that is, a state of non-worldification.