Kim

fictional · 7 mentions across 1 reading

In this course

Kim appears as a Junior Researcher protagonist in SCP Foundation fiction exploring antimemetic entities—anomalies that erase themselves and their victims from memory and history. The excerpts use Kim's fragmentary consciousness and wavering recollection to dramatize the epistemic horror of objects that unmake both knowledge and personhood, a concept central to how the course material interrogates how AI systems might operate on information, forgetting, and the boundaries of what can be documented or known. Kim's situation embodies the reading's concern with information systems that selectively occlude reality rather than represent it, making him a narrative vehicle for exploring surveillance, memory, and the foundations of digital architecture.

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There is no Antimemetics Division

"Nausea, and dramatically increased risk of pancreatic cancer," Marion says. "And very bad dreams." Introductory Antimemetics Junior Researcher Kim's been working for the Foundation for all of four hours and he feels pulverised, as if an …Kim remembers the near-empty cafeteria. And miles of totally unoccupied corridors and vacant office and lab space. Maybe it's not just eating my memories. Maybe it eats people whole, removes them completely from history. Maybe it's been hau…"Do you remember your mother?" he hears Grey calling down the corridor. "I never knew my parents, I was an orphan," Kim hisses under his breath. For a split second he wonders what Grey might really mean by that, but he doesn't have time to…

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People mentioned in the same passages — sorted by co-occurrence weight.

Alastair Grey 3 Paul Kim 2 Wheeler 2 Alois Alzheimer 1 Hughes 1 Marion Wheeler 1 Marion 1 Grey 1