ABSTRACT

Heralding the self-brand of ‘K-prevention’ (nuanced with nationalistic pride in line with K-wave, K-pop, etc.), Korea has operated within two methods of articulation against COVID-19. One method involves granting the population relative freedom within the actual, physical realm, while the other method involves strengthening data surveillance within the virtual realm. This articulation of the actual and the virtual, and of freedom and surveillance, is at the core of Korea’s biopolitical governmentality, which is currently intertwined not only with an infectious virus, but also with data technology. I would like to suggest a slight silver lining with respect to the possibility of overcoming this dilemma: a dilemma that involves physical survival under data colonialism on the one hand, and freedom from data colonialism on the other – both elements complicated by the potential risk of transmission. This may be a starting point toward digital democracy in the age of pandemics: social equality for life instead of augmenting the thanapolitical database; respect toward vulnerable singularities instead of deceitful exclusion; and sensitivity toward redressing embedded inequality instead of reinforcing stigmatization. We must, in other words, reinvent an ethics of vulnerability and a politics of dependency as guiding principles for living together in pandemic times.

摘要

韩国宣传“ K-prevention”的自有品牌（因与K-wave，K-pop等相关的民族主义自豪感而有所改变），韩国已采取两种针对COVID-19的方法来运作。一种方法涉及在实际的物理领域内授予总体相对自由度，而另一种方法涉及在虚拟领域内加强数据监视。对实际和虚拟以及自由和监视的这种表达，是韩国生物政治政府的核心，目前，不仅与传染性病毒，而且与数据技术相互交织。我想就克服这一难题的可能性提出一些建议：一方面，这个难题涉及在数据殖民主义下的物质生存，以及免受数据殖民主义的侵害–这两个因素都因潜在的传播风险而变得复杂。这可能是大流行时代走向数字民主的起点：终身社会平等，而不是扩大政客关系数据库；尊重弱势的奇异性而不是欺骗性的排斥；纠正嵌入的不平等而不是加重污名化的敏感性。换句话说，我们必须重塑脆弱的伦理和依赖的政治，作为在大流行时代共同生活的指导原则。纠正嵌入的不平等而不是加重污名化的敏感性。换句话说，我们必须重塑脆弱的伦理和依赖的政治，作为在大流行时代共同生活的指导原则。纠正嵌入的不平等而不是加重污名化的敏感性。换句话说，我们必须重塑脆弱的伦理和依赖的政治，作为在大流行时代共同生活的指导原则。