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The Capitalist Unconscious

Hyun Ok Park

2015400 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Columbia University Press · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780231171922
  • 2015Columbia University Press · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780231540513
  • 2018Columbia University Press · 400 pagesISBN 9780231171939

The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.

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