EBS, Korea"s leading educational broadcaster, organized lectures called “Great Minds” by 40 distinguished scholars including Paul Krugman, Richard Dawkins, Judith Butler and so on and started airing on August 30, 2021. When the program schedule wa...
EBS, Korea"s leading educational broadcaster, organized lectures called “Great Minds” by 40 distinguished scholars including Paul Krugman, Richard Dawkins, Judith Butler and so on and started airing on August 30, 2021. When the program schedule was announced, some conservative media condemned Judith Butler, the author of Gender Trouble, the most influential book in the history of Gender Studies, as a pedophile and supporter of incest out of nothing. Based on the fabricated news stories, with passionate intensity, many people wrote on the EBS message board that Judith Butler"s lectures should be stopped. She is, however, only an academic expert, not a politician with power. What makes them afraid of Judith Butler? Are they trying to exorcise a spectre called precarity haunting 21<SUP>st</SUP> century Korean society?