Korean Germanist Tae-ho Kim is my friend and co-author, but Korean Germanist Byung-Chul Han is maybe my least favorite contemporary theorist (I may be a rice queen but I'm not undiscriminating!), as I explain in my review of his latest in American Affairs (via the link or read below): https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/08/the-business-and-politics-of-storytelling/
Nicely done. "Modern" is hard to think about, in any era, and especially since . . . I don't know. Irish anthropologist Mark Maguire and I wrote "Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern." (Routledge 2020) which speaks to a lot of this, especially Weber and territory. We got the audio rights back, and I'm putting it up on Substack. Original music by Vince Parlato. Kinda cool., Anyway, I look forward to reading more from you on these matters. Cheers.
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Nicely done. "Modern" is hard to think about, in any era, and especially since . . . I don't know. Irish anthropologist Mark Maguire and I wrote "Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern." (Routledge 2020) which speaks to a lot of this, especially Weber and territory. We got the audio rights back, and I'm putting it up on Substack. Original music by Vince Parlato. Kinda cool., Anyway, I look forward to reading more from you on these matters. Cheers.