This is a preorder for the print edition of MENT Issue 003. The print run will be determined by preorder volume, and quantities are limited.
Preorders close: April 8, 2026
Estimated ship window: early May 2026
We offer US domestic shipping. Local pickup is also available in Los Angeles and the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), as well as at our Berkeley event on April 29. If you select local pickup, we will follow up by email with more details.
MENT is an independent publication. Our work is produced without regular institutional funding, grants, or advertising support. Preorders help us pay contributors and cover production costs.
About This Issue This limited run print issue features new critical and creative work on Korean media and popular culture, with a particular focus on bodies, platform power, labor, memory, and resistance.
Beginning with KPop Demon Hunters, Issue 003 examines what the film’s animated, modular idol bodies reveal about the shape of our contemporary moment. Going beyond where the film leaves off, the pieces in this issue linger in the tension between screen and body, attending to bodies that are injured, absent, laboring, resistant, or otherwise difficult to subsume under fantasies of seamless performance.
Across essays, interviews, and personal writing, Issue 003 considers K-pop choreography, digital flexibility, labor organizing, celebrity military conscription, cinematic attention, intergenerational inheritance, fan archives, and the afterlives of avant-garde art in mass visual culture.
Issue 003 features contributions from Abigail De Kosnik, Katie Doan, Robyn Hope, Hyejoo Lee, Irene Bakola, Ethan J. Rosenberg, 연조, and Christina Ferraro.
Cover illustration by Hyo Lee; adapted by Amber Lee. Print layout by Rée.
Approx. 125 pages.
Issue 003 Table of ContentsMENT Editors, “After KPop Demon Hunters: Bodies, Screens, and Resistance”
“The Whole Internet Is Fandom Now”: An Interview with Abigail De Kosnik
“An Injury to One Is an Injury to All”: Labor Organizing and Fandom with Katie Doan
Robyn Hope, “Glitches in the Dancing Machine: Presences and Absences in K-Pop Choreography”
Hyejoo Lee, “Into the NewJeans-Verse: ‘You and Me’ in a Digital World”
Irene Bakola, “You’re in the ARMY Now: K-Pop and the Military-Industrial Complex”
Ethan J. Rosenberg, “Stay A While: On Lee Chang-dong’s Pursuit of a Moral Style for the 21st Century”
연조, “Heritance”
Christina Ferraro, “‘Hello, Future!’: The Legacy of Nam June Paik in K-Pop Visuals”
This is a preorder for the print edition of MENT Issue 003. The print run will be determined by preorder volume, and quantities are limited.
Preorders close: April 8, 2026
Estimated ship window: early May 2026
We offer US domestic shipping. Local pickup is also available in Los Angeles and the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), as well as at our Berkeley event on April 29. If you select local pickup, we will follow up by email with more details.
MENT is an independent publication. Our work is produced without regular institutional funding, grants, or advertising support. Preorders help us pay contributors and cover production costs.
About This Issue This limited run print issue features new critical and creative work on Korean media and popular culture, with a particular focus on bodies, platform power, labor, memory, and resistance.
Beginning with KPop Demon Hunters, Issue 003 examines what the film’s animated, modular idol bodies reveal about the shape of our contemporary moment. Going beyond where the film leaves off, the pieces in this issue linger in the tension between screen and body, attending to bodies that are injured, absent, laboring, resistant, or otherwise difficult to subsume under fantasies of seamless performance.
Across essays, interviews, and personal writing, Issue 003 considers K-pop choreography, digital flexibility, labor organizing, celebrity military conscription, cinematic attention, intergenerational inheritance, fan archives, and the afterlives of avant-garde art in mass visual culture.
Issue 003 features contributions from Abigail De Kosnik, Katie Doan, Robyn Hope, Hyejoo Lee, Irene Bakola, Ethan J. Rosenberg, 연조, and Christina Ferraro.
Cover illustration by Hyo Lee; adapted by Amber Lee. Print layout by Rée.
Approx. 125 pages.
Issue 003 Table of ContentsMENT Editors, “After KPop Demon Hunters: Bodies, Screens, and Resistance”
“The Whole Internet Is Fandom Now”: An Interview with Abigail De Kosnik
“An Injury to One Is an Injury to All”: Labor Organizing and Fandom with Katie Doan
Robyn Hope, “Glitches in the Dancing Machine: Presences and Absences in K-Pop Choreography”
Hyejoo Lee, “Into the NewJeans-Verse: ‘You and Me’ in a Digital World”
Irene Bakola, “You’re in the ARMY Now: K-Pop and the Military-Industrial Complex”
Ethan J. Rosenberg, “Stay A While: On Lee Chang-dong’s Pursuit of a Moral Style for the 21st Century”
연조, “Heritance”
Christina Ferraro, “‘Hello, Future!’: The Legacy of Nam June Paik in K-Pop Visuals”