The Public Sphere is Not a Place

Disinforming Ourselves to Death

Meme originated from "Baton Roue" by Penloup, 2011.

  • Under Construction

    This portion of my site is currently not being actively managed. However, I keep it open for as long as possible because I’m strongly opposed to closing webpages down and causing a lot of dead-ends all over the web.

  • The Stem Cell Fraud: Patriotic Passion and ‘Sublime’ Science

    The (in)famous stem cell fraud in Korea. Strange as it may sound, many Koreans are still kind of obsessed with it… It is needless to say that the role journalism played in this whole mess was crucial. Without them, the whole fraud would have been just another scientific fraud like all others, and not some…

  • Introducing ‘Manhwa’: The World of Korean Comics

    (The following text was written as the intorduction in the sampler catalogue on Manhwa that was?distributed at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2003 (and in following SanDiego ComiCon as well). It was the initial year when the Korean Ministry of Culture?started promoting Manhwa to the Western world. For the sampler I selected the comics, wrote notes. For…