Professor of Korean Language and Literature, Jeonju University
Humanities Engineering · Artificial Nature Ontology · Media Aesthetics

I am a literary theorist and STS scholar working at the intersection of humanistic inquiry and emerging technology. My research asks: under what conditions does culture become generatable — not copied, not edited, but generated?

This question defines my current period of work, which I call the Age of Technological Generation (기술생성시대) — the epoch in which Artificial Nature and AGI become the technical substrate of cultural production itself.

My 30-year trajectory moves through four periods:

1995–2003   Deconstruction · Virtual Space Theory
2004–2012   Digital Narratology · Game Storytelling  
2013–2020   Humanities Engineering Theory
2021–now    Artificial Nature Theory · AI/Posthuman

📖 《기술생성시대의 매체미학》 — book in progress
Media Aesthetics in the Age of Technological Generation

🔬 L-HUSS 사업단 — regional humanities consortium
Vision: AIxLocal — connecting AI research infrastructure to regional cultural value

🛠️ humanities-ai-research — open research stack
RAG · Multi-agent pipelines · Concept genealogy tracking · Built for humanists

The Artificial Nature Theory (인공자연론) holds that contemporary platforms constitute a second nature — structurally, not metaphorically. Eight foundational elements:

Ontological layer 물질 데이터 에너지 연결망
Platform layer 정보 알고리즘 UI UX

Key concepts in active development:

• 공진주체 (Co-resonance Subject)
• 기계세 (Machinocene)
• 동기화율 (Synchronization Rate)
• 기술생성예술 (Technological Generation Art)

Qdrant Khoj DeerFlow Streamlit DeepSeek Claude Python WSL2

📬 Substack (coming soon) · Jeonju University