리챠드 파워즈 『갈라티아 2.2』에 함축된 포스트휴먼 종교 의식

• 영문명: Posthuman Religious Ceremony Implied in Richard Powers"s Galatea 2.2
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 김봉은(Bong Eun Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제37집 2호, 29~51쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.09.01

영문 초록

  N. Katherine Hayles interprets Helen, a sophisticated hi-tech artificial intelligence in Richard Powers"s autobiographical SF novel Gatatea 2.2, as Powers"s projection of the idealistic companion for human in the posthuman age. Helen in which binary borders-science and literature, science and myth, mind and body, and machine and human-blur commits a suicide after learning human condition through reading literature. According to Rene Girard"s religious theories of "violence," "scapegoat" and "sacrifice," discussed in Violence and The Sacred (1972), Helen"s death has her take the role of the scapegoat to purify damages that advanced science and technology has brought about and may cause. Thus, Girard"s theory illuminates Galatea 2.2 as the sacrificial ceremony Powers has created so that the upcoming posthuman age may be full of healthy solidarity not only among humans but also between humans and machines to defeat loneliness, the most horrifying violence.

목차

1. 『갈라티아 2.2』에서 이분법의 해체로 제기되는 포스트휴먼
2. 『갈라티아 2.2』에 함축된 종교적 의미
3. 파워즈가 제시하는 포스트휴먼 시대의 청사진
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Abstract

키워드

과학소설 리챠드 파워즈 『갈라티아 2.2』 헬렌 르네 지라르 탈인본주의 과학 종교 폭력 희생 기계 신화 SF Richard Powers Galatea 2.2 Helen Rene Girard posthuman science religion violence sacrifice machine myth