The meaning of language is determined not by individual words but by the relations among words. Likewise, individuals in the world exist by establishing organic relations with other beings. Therefore, life and thoughts of the individual are not his or... The meaning of language is determined not by individual words but by the relations among words. Likewise, individuals in the world exist by establishing organic relations with other beings. Therefore, life and thoughts of the individual are not his or her proper possessions, but are defined by meaning-relations which are surrounded by the group and time in which the individual is included. Modern society judges the life of the individual according to a criterion of the structure which is called efficiency or rationality. However, the thoughts and the individuals outside of this criterion are treated as unnecessary or wrong. Accordingly, if a problem comes up in the life of the individual, people cannot think of this problem as a structural one, but recognize it as the individual's problem. When the socio-structural problem is imputed to an individual, an effort of that individual to resolve this problem comes to nothing. Modern society takes this individual suffering from the structural problem as failure, and proposes a way to overcome this situation a model of the individual standardized by the structure. Thereby, the individual him or herself censors the thought which is inefficient, useless and unauthorized by the structure, and accepts it without any hesitation, the future heralded by the structure. This research recognizes the existence of the undiscovered structure in the world of complexification and specialization, and studies in a critical way the structure which standardizes the recognition and acts of the individual by penetrating into his or her desire and sense. As a frame of this critical study, this research makes the best use of post-structural thought. First, this research studies the theory of the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure regarding the structure of language which is the most intimate element in human life. The structural linguistics of Saussure, which provides a basis for the structuration of the thought and the world of human beings, believes that the meaning of sign is not defined by some essential property but by the difference among other signs. Therefore, there is not any relationship between the sign and the object represented by this sign. According to Saussure, the system of language is structured in this way. The comprehension of the linguistic system is expanded to the comprehension of human culture and society via the thoughts of Roman Jakobson and Claude Levi-Strauss. They claim that the subject exists not only as a singular being but also as a being shackled by the ‘relation’ shaped by the structure. Saussure and Levi-Strauss try to find the total structure in the language as a universal thought in this world and in the primitive tribe. Thus, for Saussure and Levi-Strauss, the structure is inevitable, invariable and universal. With this understanding of the structure, Saussure and Levi-Strauss could break away from the subject-centered thought which is characteristic of the modern thought. However they were also caught up in rationalist thought because of the presupposition of a priori structure. Consequently their theories bring about alienation of the individual by restraining the liberty of the individual as a singular being and by being unable to explain the specificity of the individual. Therefore, this research proposes to deconstruct the unified and necessary thought of the structure and the linguistic structure by the works of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, and to reaffirm the existence of the world by the aleatory and articulated thought. The thought of the structure is in itself a thought-procedure of embracing the life and world of the researcher, and is established not only as the content of the researcher’s work but also as the methodological frame. Expressions through works of art are achieved through various media including photos, engravings, visual images, object installation, language, sound installations, drawings, publications, books, and all share the method of borrowing, duplication and deconstruction. Most of the works do not finish at one point but exist in a state of relation between anterior work and posterior work. In other words, these works do not exist as completed objects but are arranged to be open objects. The work can be largely separated into two categories: First, works which exist as a ‘trace’, and second, works which exist as a ‘line’. The works of a trace is a process of the incessant translation of a certain text, and the works of extracting a ‘line’ is a process of deconstructing and rearranging lines which functioned or function in a specific space. These acts of the repetitive translation and extraction express the fact that absolute truth or the fixed structure does not exist, and that the truth or the structure is always flexible and unstable. Moreover, these acts are per se the resistance of the individual against the order of systematized meanings. We hope that this small act of the researcher which, by some people, could be discounted as a meaningless act, can affirm and comfort the deviant lives of the individuals who were not able to be systematized by the meaning-structure of this world. ，韩语论文题目，韩语论文 |
