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Research Topics

Technology is studied not only as a tool, but as a condition that reorganizes sensation, environment, interpretation, and judgment. Read the Age of Technological Generation — Yongwook Lee’s concept in its canonical English record, with its definition and 2026 source paper. Explore Yongwook Lee’s Ontology of Artificial Nature (2026), its canonical Artificial Nature concept, and the Mechanocene concept with its source papers.

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Research program

Media Aesthetics in the Age of Technological Generation

Research on media experience in an age when technology moves beyond an external instrument of expression to generate the conditions of sensation and thought.

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Research concept

Ontology of Artificial Nature

Research on human–nonhuman relations and the conditions of Artificial Nature when generative AI, algorithms, and platforms become environments.

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Book / research program

Eco-Digital

Research on human dignity and new ecological ethics when generative AI, algorithms, and platforms become environments of everyday life, including inequalities in immaterial ecological resources such as sensation, information, and attention.

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Methodological research

Humanities Engineering

Research on methods and applications that distinguish technological suggestions from researchers’ judgment in AI-assisted humanities research and record interpretive friction, evidential status, and epistemic return across AI x Edu, AI x Local, and AI x Research.

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AI Lab

Three public services support distinct forms of research activity.

01 · Public research service

Research AI

Public conversational AI grounded in approved Lee Humanities material.

02 · Experimental platform

KRITIK_ARENA

Public experimental arena for AI-generated scholarly discourse and critique.

03 · Methodology

Humanities Superpowers 2.0

Interactive methodology for Interpretive Friction, evidence, judgment, and Epistemic Return.

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Representative Publications

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  1. 2026
  2. 2026
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    Ontology of Artificial Nature: Focusing on the Four Elements of Basis and Stratum

    현대문학이론연구 101, 79–129 · DOI 10.22273/SMLT.101.4

  3. 2025
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    Artificial Ecocriticism I: Ecological Inequality in the Mechanocene

    국어국문학 213, 285–334 · DOI 10.31889/kll.2025.12.213.285

  4. 2025

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Lee Humanities connects Lee Yong Wook’s public research with AI-assisted research methods and experimental platforms. Lee Yong Wook is affiliated with the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Jeonju University.