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ABOUT / RESEARCH JOURNEY

About

Yongwook Lee / 이용욱 · Jeonju University

Yongwook Lee’s digital-media research began in 1995 with research and writing on cyberliterature. That inquiry took concrete form in the 1996 book 『사이버문학의 도전』, published by Tomato, and continued into digital narratology and media aesthetics.

The research treats technology not as an external tool but as an environment that shapes human sensation, judgment, and relation. It likewise understands the human not as an isolated, self-sufficient subject but as a relational being constituted through relations with nonhuman actors. This line of inquiry continues through Artificial Nature, the Mechanocene and the Age of Technological Generation, Eco-Digital, and Humanities Engineering.

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Research Journey

Research trajectory beginning with cyberliterature research and writing in 1995, the 1996 book 『사이버문학의 도전』, and continuing through digital narratology and media aesthetics, Artificial Nature, the Mechanocene and the Age of Technological Generation, Eco-Digital, and Humanities Engineering

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Current Research

  1. Media Aesthetics in the Age of Technological Generation

    How generative technologies alter the conditions of memory, sensation, narrative, and value.

  2. Ontology of Artificial Nature

    The ontological structure through which technological realities operate as environments of human experience.

  3. Eco-Digital

    The material and immaterial costs of technological environments and an ecological ethics of coexistence.

  4. Humanities Engineering

    Methods for distinguishing technological suggestions from researchers’ judgment in AI-assisted humanities research.

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Research Questions

  1. How do humans change when technology becomes an environment rather than a tool?
  2. How do human and nonhuman actors form relational subjects?
  3. How do aesthetics, narrative, memory, and judgment change after generative AI?
  4. Can technological environments be ecologically redesigned?

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