corea1953 & corea 20xx

By J. Haesoo Jeung

insta: @haesoojeung / twitter: @jhaesoojeung

J. Haesoo Jeung, globetrotter and philosophy graduate from Kalamazoo College, is currently spending their time as a rising poet and independent scholar on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Critical Social Theory. Previously based in the US, Germany, Spain, and the UK, they are now traveling onto their next destination.

Medium: Poetry Duet

“Institutionalized deterrence against racism and prejudice have left people struggling with correct words/acts, despite waves of shame (manifesting into fetishism) and waves of anger (manifesting into abjection). Both are a matter of a grief. We are not slaughtered because it is necessary and instrumental, but because it feels good. Because it affirms the aggressor by numbing a certain sense of Self. But we must not let capitalism and white supremacy convince us that this remaining ache of mourning is one of isolation. Corea is to be mourned so we can (re)imagine new plasticities toward each other.”