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KMID : 1172020210220010001
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2021 Volume.22 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.18
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Transverse Matter, Disappearing Body: Re-reading the “Case of Leukemia at Samsung Semiconductor” Text
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Im Ji-Yeon
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Abstract
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This study intended to capture the relational and active materiality of the body in the text that rekindles the case of leukemia at Samsung Semiconductor. This study critically reinterpreted the meaning of the weakened body in the text that dealt with this case and focused on the relationship of the body and the vitality of matters through trans-corporeality, which is a neomaterialistic concept.
First, since the body of the worker was approached in a socio-constructive manner in the case of leukemia at Samsung Semiconductor, it focused on the political meaning as the body of the working class, the body that resists Samsung, the body being attacked by toxic chemicals, and the body excluded from the state. In films, publications, and the practice of groups such as the SHARPS (Supporters for the Health And Rights of People in the Semiconductor industry), the body is over-represented or under-represented according to the context of the narrative. Paradoxically, these cultural and political practices had the effect of post-curing the bodies of workers at Samsung Semiconductor.
Second, the concept of trans-corporeality does not separate the body from the environment and understands it as a material inter-connectivity. The bodies of workers at Samsung Semiconductor show the process of complex interactions with the environment (toxic substances, facilities, semiconductors, clean rooms, fabs, and other workers). Their bodies and chemicals are activated relationally to each other. In this way, in the case of leukemia at samsung semiconductor, the body can be placed on a new ontological horizon related to material as well as the existing legal and political body. In addition, this paper, which focuses on the active materiality of the body and chemicals, is expected to contribute to the conceptual expansion of bioethics and the securing of interdisciplinary diversity.
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KEYWORD
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case of leukemia at samsung semiconductor, women worker's body, active materiality, toxic Chemicals, trans-corporeality
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