Yongho Kim

Author: yonghokim

  • two places god writes

    blog.godpeople.com

    blogger.com/profile/5832619

  • about yokim.net

    this is technically a blog. a lot of its entries come from livejournal.com/~yonghokim and mediamob.co.kr/yonghokim

    also , a large number of spanish poems and short stories (b.yokim.net/c/ficcion/) moved over from a former website http://ninito.page.de or thor.prohosting.com/~nnejludov/sp that was no longer maintainable. also, there are records i keep for work (confidential notes are password protected.) as well as school work that just needs a place to be stored while i run from the dorms to the library printer. all those things are in here. i also keep a personal email archive after crashing the last backup dump, mostly password protected.

    so this is a very random hodgepodge of things unrelated from one another except for the fact that i need them.

    there are some works from other people up here, and i clearly specified whom it belongs to. (it’s up to you to find out how to contact them for copyright permissions, since most of the time i don’t know) unlike my work, i make no licenses regarding text produced by other people. their text may be subject to fair use standards according to u.s. copyright law. google it. i keep their works here because i occassionaly need to print it.

    on the other hand, everything i write is for free, i wouldn’t mind putting it on the public domain except that i dislike commercial use, so the closest fully documented legal standard i found regarding distribution of texts was the creative commons license. all text produced by me at this blog is licensed by share alike and non-commercial use. i don’t care about attribution.

    oh, and yongho kim is my real name. i would love to write a bit about myself but these days i forgot how to do that with style. those who care don’t need to be reminded here, anyways.

    for the record, these are the identifiers i used in the past. note that none of these work now. in particular i use the yahoo email for spam control

    formerly used, and now discarded, identifiers:
    ykim@i.am ninito@pagina.de yhk2k@yahoo.com futureshine@daum.net futureshine@hanmail.net http://ninito.pagina.de thor.prohosting.com/~nnejludov geocities.com/athens/aegean/1782 yhk2k@hotmail.com livejournal.com/~yonghokim

    that should be it to get this started.

    identifiers currently in use:
    blogger.com/profile/4707788 del.icio.us/yonghokim/project

  • AndrewSW develops custom RSS feeds per categories

    from AndreSW:
    andrewsw.com/pages/BlogFate?p=907
    Create your feed of my blog by choosing which categories of my blog you are interested in having in your own custom feed, and which categories you would rather not see at all.

    if only RSS could be delivered through mailing lists! *laugh* we could revolutionize content delivery for low-tech Adelante!’s members who don’t have their own computers. (e.g. there wouldn’t be a need for a separate CMS and mailing list server)

    he’s also working on a “feed comments to my own comments” so that conversations over the web can flow more.. continuously. conceptually similar to mediamob.co.kr ‘s “replies board” [리플게시판] feature, but more to the core of the idea of following conversations.

    damn.

  • texts

    explanation: above are texts posted elsewhere, linked through pingbacks. below are the search box, links to categories and monthly archive pages.

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  • first guestbook

    email: yokima@gmail.com

    we’ll use this as an english language guestbook.

    the image is from a summer job i once had. we had to cut little red films to paste them on plastic tags that would be fit at professors’ doors. after a month of work, i got to learn every single new professor’s name moving in that summer.

  • Strategic repositioning within academia

    arguing for the statement that Cultural Anthropology belongs to the humanities and not to the social sciences

    December 20, 2004
    History of Anthropological Ideas
    Yongho Kim

    This paper defends the position that Cultural Anthropology, as a field of study, belongs (and should belong) to the humanities division. In so doing, I argue along two main points: 1) that anthropological work, as well as any others, engages with the humanities at a more fundamental level than the social sciences, and 2) that the field of anthropology would benefit from positioning itself within the humanities division rather than in the social sciences.
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  • RE: Permission to translate White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left

    From: Yongho Kim
    To: Kil-Ja Kim, Kenyon Farrow, Mellon Minority Fellows Undegraduate Fellowship at Macalester
    Date: Mon Dec 6, 2004 9:15 am
    Subject: RE: Fwd: Permission to translate White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left

    Ms. Kim and Mr. Farrow,

    thanks for letting me post your article “White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left” on the web. It’s up now at
    http://mediamob.co.kr/aboutnews/aboutnewsview.asp?pkid=5723 (now deleted)
    http://b.yokim.net/293/

    and, I’m sure you got interesting reactions back in the summer, but wanted to share responses I’ve got on the posting over there with you. I’m adding our current email communication (only this last message I’m sending out to you) to the entry so that readers a the site have an idea of what I am doing with their comments.

    Also, let me know if you start getting too much spam (so that I take down your email addresses from the site) South Korean sites are quite a hotspot for that.

    I wanted to share your article in both directions at this south korean blog site, because my impression is that there is a large ideological gap between discussions surrounding race in south korea and the united states. Reactions, and the language they are carried on from the progressive camp in south korea about race is quite disturbing, especially now that “illegal immigrants” from Indonesia, Phillippines and the rest of Southeast Asia have started flocking to south korea (reaching 1% of the population was the last I heard), and these “illegal immigrants” are quite different from the old “illegal immigrants” which were made up of white american troops of the occupying army forces (which included blacks but were conceptualized as part of the white masse). It’s even more disturbing to learn that at south korea sources of how race is dealt with in the U.S. comes from labor unions and indy media centers, which we may agree don’t have the most subversive strategy in dealing with race.

    As for the online reactions to your articles, they do mostly focus on the first half of your article, arguing that you 1) caricaturize Moore and 2) you can’t really merge different movements into one big chunk. I think they are missing your criticism of how in-between groups such as immigrants are trying to step on black peoples’ discrimination to merely reap the benefits of not being black, which was your central argument (right?). I failed to get the concept of “black death” across, I think, and none of the reactions seem to deal with the second half (maybe it didn’t make sense?). The language and terminology barrier (we don’t have two words for “African-American” and “black” in the korean language, for example) If you decide to get out a response, you could just email them to me and I will try posting them in the original english along with translations, time permitting. Please feel free to check out the web itself.

    I’m also cc’ing this to the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows mailing list at Macalester, at which we discussed your article in august.

  • Individual agency as a postmodern project in Anthropology

    December 9, 2004
    History of Anthropological Ideas
    Second essay, on the idea of agency in anthropological thought
    Yongho Kim

    This essay addresses the notion agency as a contended concept in the development of anthropological thought, from Durkheim and Kroeber to Rosaldo and D’Andrade.
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  • Inti Illimani. 한밤중 Medianoche

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  • Yup, that's the shortcut to perdition. [blog entry translation]

    Sent to: Ricardo Levins Morales, Mellon group

    Yup, that’s the shortcut to perdition. [blog entry translation] by Jungtae Roh mediamob.co.kr/rasugjuriha
    original entry in korean at mediamob.co.kr/rasugjuriha/Post/PostView.aspx?RowCount=&PKId=22621

    As my friend FunnyHat appropriately pointed out , getting your calculators out and making all sorts of predictions out of the U.S. presidential elections is quite meaningless and may even be bad for your health. What we really need to talk about at this point is about [south korean] national politics, which will influence us and to which we can exert influence. I can’t hold myself from saying this: just look at them – that’s the shortcut to perdition. A “critical support” [A] or “lesser evil” strategy is nothing but a shortcut to eternal damnation.

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  • [Eric Olson] Opaque Fecundity: Theories of Lévi-Strauss

    This text was produced by Eric Olson while the person was a student at Macalester. It was distributed for in-class review. Any use of this text necessitates you to contact the person directly for copyright purposes.

    From:¨Eric Olson
    Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:03 PM
    Subject: here’s my crib sheet!
    please read this first (after you have voted)

    foreward: The title of this work is ironically appropriate: LS wanted to make things as simple as possible under his phrame of reference yet to our perpetual misfortune, it ends up being exactly not that. Please, enjoy.
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    ps, someone write me back saying you got it
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