Status Updates From Everyday Life in the North ...

Very interesting chapter summarizing the autobiographies of people applying as teachers or members of the workers party. They had to justify their background and formulate a narrative to be evaluated on their trustworthiness for political and pedagogical influence. E. g., if you had a supporting role during colonial rule, you had to justify that and show you had a change of heart.

Starting off very strong laying out the philosophical framework showing that the basics have been considered in this book. Even the definition of everyday life is being considered as something defined by time and space, as a concept that applies to capitalism and that was different in north korea as the everyday life was a conjuncture of ordinary life with inordinary revolutionary systemic change.