BOOK DATA Seung-hoon Jeong, Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2023. $125.00 cloth; $45.00 paper. 344 pages.
Seong-hoon Jeong’s Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema is an impressive piece of film-philosophical scholarship that embodies the word global in a proliferation of senses. As an astute analysis of globalization, the book is as much a work of critical philosophy as of film theory and ethics. As a reflection of its author, it bespeaks Jeong’s veritably global perspective, shaped by experiences and travels across Abu Dhabi, South Korea, and the United States. As a hefty three-hundred-plus-page study, it maps a series of topics and case studies splendidly global in scope. And yet, as an account of human fate within the globalized world order, it ultimately reserves its most critical interventions for the category of the global as such.
So, what are the aporias of the global that Jeong sets out,...