"The Korean peninsula during the Cold War provided a cruel but historically unparalleled real-world "experiment" in the relationship between polity and material advance: an ethnically and culturally homogenous nation was, in 1945, suddenly divided by an arbitrary boundary line and then subjected...

Preface and acknowledgments -- History, politics, and theory -- The capitalist unconscious : the Korea question -- The aesthetics of democratic politics : labor, violence, and repetition -- Reparation -- Reparation : Korean Chinese as colonial returnees -- Socialist reparation : Korean Chinese...