This article attempts to illuminate, in terms of technology and mimesis theories, China’s copycat practices generally called shanzhai and the recent US-China tech war in which the USA and China fight against each other over the global techno-hegemony. Positioning a step outside the global regime of Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) and the hegemonic discourse of the USA, this study tries to approach China’s shanzhai practice and the US-China tech war as a fundamental process of mimesis and the politics of mimesis channeling the general trajectory of technological evolution. The research findings of this study are as follow. Firstly, China’s shanzhai practice is not a villain of the global IPR regime but a part of the universal process of technological evolution and a historically and culturally specific effect of technological mimesis. Secondly, the incessant drama of technological imitation and emulation unfolding through shanzhai practices and the US-China tech war is the field of mimetic politics as what Gilles Deleuze calls “simulacra” involving the positive potential that negates at once the original and the replica, the model and the reproduction, which ultimately deconstructs the IPR regime. Thirdly, the technological mimesis and the politics of mimesis shaping the process of China’s shanzhai practice and the US-China tech war allow us a new perspective in which one may examine the unruly technical renovation and competition under the current global capitalism beyond the absolute authority of the IPR regime and the hegemonic discourse of the USA. Based on these research findings, it suggests an epistemological transition through which one comes to be capable of imagining modern technology in general as “technology commons” in order to overcome the global climate crisis and catastrophic environmental problems.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.