죽음과 정치의 알고리즘 - 실시간 미디어 네트워크 이미지에 의한 정치적인 것의 가능성

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This paper analyzes the political possibilities and limitations of disaster images transmitted in real-time through digital media networks since the mid-2010s, focusing on the Sewol ferry disaster, Itaewon crowd crush, and the December 3rd martial law attempt. While disaster images evoke intense affects in individuals and communities, their transformation into sustained political action is neither automatic nor inevitable. Shocking images transmitted through real-time media networks tend to be quickly forgotten or reduced to ideological frameworks within platform algorithms and the fragmented consumption structure of the attention economy. This study examines the political potential of the "noisy" and "residual" aspects of disaster images, arguing that they can serve as catalysts for disrupting existing sensory orders and opening possibilities for new forms of communal response. The analysis employs Rancière's concept of the distribution of the sensible and Derrida's notions of spectrality and contextual invocation to provide a new understanding of image politics in the digital age.

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