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Cover of Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene by Andrew Pickering. The cover features a detail from the painting "Untitled (Gibbet Island)" by Cy Gavin. There is a red bar at the top, the bottom third is dark blue. An abstract pink and blue image is at the center of the painting. The title is in the upper left of the blue section of the painting with the subtitle and author name below the abstract image.
In "Acting with the World," Andrew Pickering proposes a new way of being & doing that he calls acting with the world, foregrounding nonhuman and more-than-human agency and attuning our practices to those that align with the world’s best interests. Read the intro for free:
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Quote from Minju party leader Park Chan-dae’s speech today, which referenced Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win:
“She asked, “Can the past help the present? Can the dead save the living?”
Experiencing the insurrection, I want to say “yes.” Because Gwangju 1980 protected us in December 2024.”
Protesters erupted into cheers the moment the impeachment vote passed:
South Korea now enters a prolonged period of uncertainty. The constitutional court must decide whether to uphold the impeachment. But either way, it's a historic night. Yoon immediately hands over power to the prime minister, who becomes caretaker president.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Love this story from our Seoul team on the K-pop-ification of the impeachment protests: With K-pop and light sticks, South Koreans demanded Yoon’s impeachment
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Protesters doing the "impeachment wave" before the vote
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans outside the National Assembly broke out in cheers after the vote passed. People crying, singing, hugging out here, balloons flying, absolute celebration.
Han Deok-soo (also romanized as Duck-soo) will be acting president, he is reportedly convening an emergency cabinet meeting and will speak to the nation shortly after
BREAKING: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol impeached after martial law ploy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
YOON IMPEACHED
In the woman’s restroom near the protests many women have left snacks, masks, and sanitary pads to help others. Protests in Korea since the authoritarian era have been very communal events. Some who cannot make it to the protest have been paying for coffee and hot packs for hands
A giant crowd outside the National Assembly, calling for President Yoon’s impeachment. Vote to begin in 30 min
Tens of thousands of protesters go silent as a giant screen shows speaker of the National Assembly read the full martial law decree that Yoon issued last week. It’s eerily quiet as the decree echoes on loudspeakers outside the National Assembly, where lawmakers voted it down.
Assembly members are seated. Chair is speaking to begin proceedings. He tells members that their votes are heavy with the weight of history and democracy.
Yoon's impeachment proceeding to begin at 4pm local today. If it passes, it goes to the Constitutional Court, which must decide within 180 days whether to support or reject it. (The court plays the role of the U.S. Senate in the American presidential impeachment process.)
As we go into the last weekend to work on your DiGRA 25 paper and abstract submissions, we've got another keynote announcement to add to our lineup: Dr Aphra Kerr! @aphrak.bsky.social digraconference2025.org/people-keyno...
Impeachment vote, take 2!
Second attempt at impeachment vote is scheduled to take place this evening.
Huge crowds expected at National Assembly (bundle up, it's freezing!)
IU and Girls Generation's Yuri both donated food for protesters, as per tradition of Korean women doing THE MOST at protests
In the past week since martial law, critics of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have been sending white funeral wreaths to the HQ of his conservative People Power Party, a sign of protest. The pink support wreaths arriving now at his presidential office are a counter protest to those wreaths.
Incredible: Outside the South Korean presidential office in Yongsan, there’s about a half-mile row of wreaths sent by his supporters as he faces a likely successful impeachment vote tomorrow. It goes on and on and on and on, on both sides of the road. (Quick thread on wreath culture in Korea)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will watch today's impeachment proceedings from his residence. Impeachment looks to be quite likely; at least 7 members of his own party support it publicly (only 8 defections needed). There are more who privately support it.
www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday angrily defended his shock decision to declare martial law last week and signaled he would not resign from office, as a second effort to impeach him gathers momentum.
Our latest from Seoul:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Conservative party comments on president's declaration today that he will not step down:
"Is he insane"
"Is he asking us to impeach him"
"It's like he just confessed to insurrection"
Was asked to interview for a western media outlet and they were like "and has the impeachment vote awakened the women into political consciousness" and I was like ??? Women have always been the FOREFRONT of protest in Korea: Yoo Gwan Soon, stroller-pushing mothers in 2008, Ewha Women's Uni in 2016??
Conservative Kim Jae-seop’s reaction listening to latest presidential speech
After president vows on TV to stay in office despite calls from conservative leadership to step down (as opposed to being impeached), the conservative party leader finally admits he cannot control the president and is calling for impeachment.
*gif of Bart Simpson throwing away "you tried" cake*
imagine one day your biggest problem at work is your boss who still believes "Seoul my Soul" is a good slogan. Then your boss's boss's boss's boss etc goes and declares martial law in the middle of the night
Yoon (paraphrased): If I wanted it to be serious martial law, I would've done it on the weekend, made it a large-scale deployment of military. But I did not do that. I only sent in a~300 military personnel. How can they blame me of insurrection?
"Is there such a thing as a two-hour insurrection?"
Yoon says he felt he had to declare martial law cuz the nation was too paralyzed under opposition-controlled National Assembly, and he only dispatched troops to protect the protesters who showed up. He says his martial law wasn't intended to be like the violent ones of the past.
