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《Electric Shock》 is a report on electricity. Electricity, defined as the totality of energy generated through electrons, is a key resource that operates modern society. From household appliances to digital consumption, advanced production lines, and logistics systems, it is difficult to imagine life without electricity. The recent commercialization of artificial intelligence and the expansion of big tech companies have exponentially increased power consumption. Securing and supplying electricity in a stable manner has become a critical issue in rapidly adopting advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, beginning to determine the competitiveness of nations and corporations. The era of electrical hegemony has arrived, and alongside endless desires for technological advancement, various efforts to develop power within finite resources are underway. Electricity is no longer merely an energy source that enriches daily life but has become an essential weapon that determines survival. This urgency has led to indiscriminate development, turning even efforts for carbon neutrality into romantic promises seen as delaying technological progress. Reflective movements that once called for sustainable coexistence such as posthumanism and the Anthropocene are fading into history already written over the immediate electric war unfolding before us. Electric Shock reveals and traces the sharp relationship between technology and the environment occurring today through a single circuit called electricity.