Table of Contents:
  • On Bangtan remixed : a critical BTS reader / Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong
  • Tradition, transition, and trends : contextualizing BTS's gugak-inspired performance of "Idol" / Wonseok Lee
  • Hustlin' until dope : how BTS's rap line cultivated their hip hop identities / Nykeah Parham
  • "Life goes on" : social and musical space in BTS's mid-pandemic album BE / Stefania Piccialli
  • "Blood, sweat, and tears" : BTS, Bruegel, and the Baroque / Marci Kwon
  • Martha and the Swans : BTS, "Black Swan," and Cold War dance history / Yutian Wong
  • The platformization of K-Pop : from Weverse to NFTs / Dal Yong Jin
  • Under the same sky : synchronicity in BTS media, on- and offline / Despina Kakoudaki
  • Bridging the senses : medium and materiality from music video to graphic lyric / Andrew Albert Ty
  • Sweet chili and Cajun : tasting the power of language with the BTS McDonald's meal / Melody Lynch-Kimery
  • Fragmentary redemptions : ARMY, RPF, and the AU at the heart of the Bangtan universe / Regina Yung Lee
  • "Black guy reacts to BTS for the first time" : provocations from a Black ARMY / Jheanelle Brown
  • "Your story becomes our universe" : fan edits, shitposts, and the BTS database / Jaclyn Zhou
  • Jungkook's button, or the GIF that keeps on giving / Mimi Thi Nguyen
  • Empire goes on : circuits of Asian care work / Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
  • Like a criminal undercover : love, hate, and the performance of inclusion / Rachel Kuo
  • Recoding the bot : ARMY and digital transgression / Andrea L. Acosta
  • Break the structure : BTS ARMY digital activism and state surveillance in Indonesia's Omnibus Law protest / Karlina Octaviany
  • From purple to pink : The Filipino ARMY for Leni and the fight for good governance / Allison Anne G. Atis, Noel Sajid I. Murad, and Hannah Ruth L. Sison
  • "Yoongi, can you hear me?" : demanding justice for #MELİSA and ARMY activism in Turkey / Alptekin Keskin and Mutlu Binark
  • "Spring day" : nostalgia, pop mediation, and public mourning / Michelle Cho
  • INTERLUDE: "Magic shop" : so show me, I'll show you (My Fan Art)
  • My universe / Rosanna Hall
  • Crimson blooming / Carolina Alves, Jin Youngsun
  • Spring day / Yuni Kartika
  • Diary of youth : justice / Maria Mison
  • Cultural rebellion Pt. 1 / Kaina "Kai" Bernal
  • Minority without a model / Johnny Huy Nguyễn
  • BTS stands for bisexuals, trans folks, sapphics / Havannah Tran
  • Namjooning / Ameena Fareeda
  • Namjoon and the Sirens / Amanda Lovely
  • Being cute/Pays mah bills / Prerna Subramanian
  • Learning radical love through BTS / Gracelynne West
  • BFFs (Butter Friends Forever) / Sophia Cai
  • Light it up like dynamite / Inez Amihan Anderson and Mimi Thi Nguyen
  • Gifts / Yutian Wong
  • The skinship diaries / Sara Murphy
  • "Gender does not exist outside of patriarchy" : flower boys, gender envy, and the radical possibilities of JIMIN GENDER / S. Heijin Lee
  • Permission to desire / Rani Neutill
  • Fifty shades of butter : consensual nonconsent in BTS fanfiction / Raymond San Diego
  • Bangtan scholars and the ethics of care / Courtney Lazore
  • Sincerely yours, ARMY : exploring fandom as curatorial methodology / Sophia Cai
  • The digital ARMY-Ummah : faith and community among Muslim BTS fans / Mariam Elba
  • "Let us light up the night" : BTS and abolitionist possibilities at the end of the world / UyenThi Tran Myhre
  • For youth / Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong.