인프라 인문학과 인프라 텍스트 연구 시론

• 영문명: Infrastructure Humanities and Infrastructural Text Studies
• 발행기관: 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소
• 저자명: 이진형(Jinhyoung Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Criticism』Vol.15 No.2, 102~137쪽, 전체 36쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.09.30

국문 초록

Drawing on recent developments in the humanities that have foregrounded infrastructure’s critical significance in people’s biological and social lives today, this article advances a new research field of “infrastructure humanities” as a cross-disciplinary research on world-(re)making based on the complex dispositions and conceptual potentials of infrastructure. Chapter 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical underpinnings of this research by outlining four key dimensions of infrastructure: spatial, temporal, aesthetic, and fictional. Based on this theoretical underpinnings, infrastructure humanities seeks to facilitate cross-disciplinary research and a dynamic understanding of world-(re)making processes. Chapter 3 introduces “infrastructure text studies” as a methodology for practicing “infrastructure humanities,” which position texts as a medium for the research. The following methodological trajectories are hereby proposed: infrastructural narrative studies, which examines narrative representations of infrastructure; infrastructural affect studies, which explores affective encounters between humans and infrastructures; and text-infrastructure cultural politics, which analyzes how texts as infrastructural practices intervene in socio-political configurations of real-world. This article, thus, seeks to be an infrastructure for an emerging and promising crossdisciplinary research of “infrastructure humanities.”

목차

1. 서론: 인프라 연구의 인문화와 인문학의 인프라적 전환

2. 인프라 인문학

3. 인프라 텍스트 연구

4. 결론: 인문학의 인프라를 위하여

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키워드

Infrastructure humanities Infrastructural text studies Infrastructural narrative studies Infrastructural affect studies Infrastructure-text cultural politics