Simon Morley 6/22/23 Simon Morley 6/22/23

‘Keep yourself alive’

There’s a trend in Korea amongst young people to take sets of four passport-like photographic ‘selfies’ in shops that are sprouting all over Seoul. I use this interesting phenomenon as a jumping off point for some reflections on the violent nature of image-making.

Simon Morley 4/11/23 Simon Morley 4/11/23

MBTI. Some more thoughts

Some more thoughts on the MBTI craze in Korea, and its relationship to modernization in general.

Simon Morley 5/30/22 Simon Morley 5/30/22

Resonance in the Cave

In the last Post, I discussed resonance and alienation as the two poles of our relationship to the world. I drew on the fascinating theory of the contemporary German sociologist Hartmut Rosa, and used the Seoul subway as a paradigm of modernity as alienation. In this Post I want to take the long view, and go back to the beginning: the Upper-Paleolithic cave-painting.

Simon Morley 5/24/22 Simon Morley 5/24/22

Alienation and Resonance on the Seoul Subway

Alienation and Resonance on the Seoul Subway.