Yeon Kyoung Lim cautions against romanticizing the independent publishing movement afforded by digitalized work flow and free social-media transmission. Keying in on the labor situation, she has experienced the collapse of work and leisure, which results in free, exploited labor in intensive micro processes of work premised on a group’s affective solidarity. Are “techniques of care” a feasible solution to the pauperization of activism? 身在「江湖」的林妍卿著我們別把數碼化工序和社交媒體平台推動的「獨立出版」浪漫化。進步的另一面的現實,是「情感化勞動」以及長時間免費的「微」工序的投入,慢慢導致維權運動的「貧化」。如果人際關係如此重要,怎樣的「關懷技術」才發揮活化的作用?
What is independent publishing’s contribution to the Feminist/LGBTQ movement in South Korea? Lim Yeon-kyoung uses new materialist and post-consumerist frameworks to examine her own field experiences. 博士研究者Lim Yeon-kyoung 在後消費主義的藍圖裡重新理解「獨立出版」的政治性、創作上的實驗性,以至對南韓本土的女性主義、同志及酷兒運動的推進所作出的貢獻。獨立出版似乎注定被拒於嚴肅的學術出版的門外,林卻用新唯物主義和演述理論的高度去討論獨立出版的追求,並以個人「實戰」去說明。