Abstract

Here I contribute to what I term critical postmedia studies in Korea.
My intention is to theorize the “eruption” or flooding of media which has
recently emerged as a central topic in the media context of Korea. From a
critical post-media perspective, I am to diagnose and understand social
and psychical phenomena such as the hikikomori syndrome that proliferate
in the flooding media situation. In recent decades, Korea is a developed
country which has experienced rapid social change due to the development
of new technologies but the psychical effects of this are often under-
explored. My intention therefore is to make some claims about the crisis of
desire in the split country of Korea and stress the importance, relevance
and legacy of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy.

Keywords Deleuze, Guattari, Stiegler, Han Byung-Chul, Berardi, hikikomori