Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors


Introduction


1 Parasitism beyond Ethics

  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein



2 The Paradoxical Universal of Korean Cinema

  Steve Choe



3 Parasite from Text to Context An Ethical Stalemate and New Auteurism in Global Cinema

  Seung-hoon Jeong



4 From Superfluous to Parasitic Russian Literature, Arendt and Korean Modernity

  Daniel Regnier



5 Notes from the (Korean) Underground Being-in-the-world Is Being-a-Parasite

  Richard McDonough



6 Mice and Cockroaches Parasite through Nietzsche and Dostoevsky

  Paolo Stellino



7 Planning Not to Plan The Fantasy and Failure of Underclass Solidarity in Parasite

  Daniel Conway



8 Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite Viewed in the Context of Pasolini’s Theorem and Deleuze’s Filmic Theories

  Tony Partridge



9 From Parasites to Monsters The Unfulfilled Promises of Serres’ Parasitism in Bong Joon-ho’s Neoliberal Social Allegories

  Hye Seung Chung



10 Parasite: A Predicative or a Substantial Concept?

  Vincenzo Lomuscio



11 “A System of Apprehensions” The Art of Parasitism in Lucian’s De Parasito and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

  Giannis Stamatellos



12 The Parasite Is the Truth of the System

  Hyun Kang Kim



13 Parasite and Identity in the “End Times” An Interpretation of Bong Joon-Ho’s Film through the Lens of Slavoj Žižek

  Michelle Phillips Buchberger



14 Parasite as a Scaled-Down Disaster Film

  Enrico Terrone



15 Symbiosis, Interruption, and Exchange Parasite after Serres’ The Parasite

  Michael Weinman and Shai Biderman



Index

About the Author

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Ph.D. (1993), is Professor of Philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.



Giannis Stamatellos, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of Philosophy and the President of the Institute of Philosophy & Technology in Athens, Greece.