L'espace et la conscience de soi à kyung-seong dans les années 1930 à travers les Œuvres de yi sang

This paper is a review of the introduction of modern space and architecture in Japanese colonial city, Kyung-Seong in Korea at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is done in the context of the problematic formation of modern subject, particularly to the selfconsciousness of Yi Sang. Yi Sang was a modernist poet, who described new experiences of modern space as the emotional experience of fear. In this paper this fear is likened to agoraphobia, which can be associated with the dialectical intersection of striated and smooth spaces. And Yi's attitude toward the modern masses as consumers or colonial citizens filling up public spaces, newly built streets, department stores, cafes etc. is characterized by the keen distinction between public and private spaces. His concept of utopia derives from the fear of public spaces ruled by colonial government and modern capitalism. In this sense utopia is a marginal place of the self, that has been trying to escape from the territorialization of the modern logic of space.