O cansaço na sociedade sul-coreana: uma análise do K-Drama “My Liberation Notes” (2022).

Abstract

The use of audiovisual sources by historians must have an intermediate status between technical-aesthetic language and the representational decoding of historical events or characters. Therefore, the language of cinema can relate to social issues, from the way in which the audience receives the film to the intentions of the producers. From this perspective, this paper seeks to analyze the series “My Liberation Notes” (2022), discussing how the issue of fatigue is addressed in today's South Korean society, understanding the relationship between capitalist hyperproductivity and mental illness, where the sphere of work and the accelerated system ends up affecting the social sphere. To support the research, Byung-Chul Han's (2015) concept of Performance Society will be used, reflecting on how neoliberalism creates internal and neural violence by demanding overproduction and overperformance; an analysis of Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot's (2016) neoliberalism will also be used, understanding it as a normative political logic driven by government interventionism; Christian Dunker (2020) understands capitalism as one of the main factors for psychological suffering; finally, it is also important to use Emiliano Unzer (2018) to reflect on the South Korean historical and social context, especially after the influence of one of the greatest capitalist powers on the Korean peninsula, the United States. The preliminary results show that the characteristics of neoliberalism (competition, hyperproductivity, acceleration) are closely intertwined with individual fatigue, and can be well developed in the audiovisual studied.