Hoon Song

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Anthropology, The University of Chicago, 2000

Specialties

• Early French Anthropology
• Philosophical anthropology
• Psychoanalysis
• US/North Korea
• Animality
• Biopolitics
• Ontology of power, materiality of sovereignty

Publications

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Publications

• Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America. University of Pennsylvania Press, Song, Hoon, 2010.
• Seeing Oneself Seeing Oneself: White Nihilism in Ethnography and Theory: Song, Hoon, Ethnos, 71(4), 470-488, 2006.
• The Bad Multitude of Four: The Analytics of "Unwrapping" the Four Field Bundle: Song, Hoon, Anthropological Quarterly, 78(4), 951-980, 2005.
• Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism. Arun Saldanha, Routledge, Song, Hoon, 2013.
• "Filiation, Continuous and Discontinuous: Two Recent Anthropological Approaches to North Korea": Song, Hoon, Critical Asian Studies, 45.2, 2013.
• Cogito, Mimesis, and Conspiracy Theory: Routledge, Song, Hoon, Culture, Theory and Critique, 53 (1), 1-18, 2012.
• Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Special Issue: Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism). Co-ed: Arun Saldanha, Song, Hoon, Vol. 17 No.2 (2012).
• Two is Infinite, Gender is Post-Social in Papua New Guinea: Song, Hoon, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 17 (2), 259-279, 2012.

Courses

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Courses

• Ideas of the Sacred
• Time and the Apocalyptic Reason
• Ethnography, Theory, History (graduate theory intro)
• Whiteness and the Trouble with Trash
• Sacrifice
• Sovereignty