포스트휴먼 신체의 인간의 조건: 무어 래퍼티의 『식스웨이크』

• 영문명: Human Conditions in Posthuman Bodies: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 안진흥(Jin-Hung Ahn)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』제157호, 133~153쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.06.30

국문 초록

This study aims to demonstrate how the survival conditions depicted in posthuman scenarios of Six Wakes continue to align with traditional human conditions, and to critically examine—through the lens of critical posthumanism—the limitations and ethical ramifications of attributing value to life based solely on anthropocentric frameworks. Through the narrative structure of a locked-room murder mystery involving six cloned humans and an artificial intelligence, Lafferty engages with a broad spectrum of ethical concerns surrounding human cloning, encompassing legal, religious, medical, technological, and capitalist perspectives. This paper organizes these thematic concerns into two principal domains: the disjunction between body and consciousness, and the ‘state of exception’ as conceptualized by Giorgio Agamben. Finally, Donna Haraway’s theoretical framework is employed to explore potential resolutions to the ethical and ontological challenges inherent in the posthuman condition. The separation of consciousness and body attributes personhood to consciousness while imbuing the body with animality. As bodies are symbolic of nonhumanity, laws prohibit mourning them, thereby stripping individual clones of their right to life. This situation illustrates the imposition of human standards upon the posthuman condition. Moreover, treating consciousness as the defining criterion of human conditions, while disregarding the body, creates an opportunity for wealthy capitalists to exploit life. If humans and clones were categorized in a way that fosters kinship, the potential for discord could be significantly reduced.

목차

1. 서론

2. 신체와 분리된 의식

3. 클론의 신체와 법률의 예외상태

4. 트러블과 함께하기

5. 결론

인용 문헌

키워드

인간복제 인간의 조건 비판적 포스트휴머니즘 포스트휴먼 윤리 『트러블과 함께하기』 의식과 신체 공-진화 human cloning human conditions critical posthumanism posthuman ethics Staying with Troubles body and consciousness co-evolution