From day one of my return to Korea after eight years of US stay - actually, starting from the on-flight accident that delayed the return - I've been devastated. Every day was survival, and after five months of dealing with the sense of insecurity, I finally reached the bottom of it all. What follows is AI-generated narration from a moment of clarity that I landed on. I would have made this into an article, simply because I have enough references to make this look "academic en

I keep the brackets for Asian  because I genuinely don’t know what to call the place I’m speaking from. It’s not quite ethnic, not exactly diasporic, not simply cultural. It’s the accumulation of moving between worlds and holding more than one at the same time. What people call double consciousness  but which, in my body, feels more like an expanded perceptual field than anything pathological or lacking. What I keep returning to is how this double consciousness becomes unspea