지속불가능한 휴먼, 번성가능한 포스트휴먼:마가렛 애트우드의 『오릭스와 크레이크』

• 영문명: Unsustainable Human, Thrivable Posthuman:Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 주기화(Kee wha Joo)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제22집 1호, 223~244쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.03.30

영문 초록

This paper analyzes the catastrophe of the ‘unsustainable human’ imagined by Margaret Atwood in Oryx and Crake, and proposes a thrivable new life form suitable for the posthuman era beyond neoliberal humanism, nihilism, and techno-utopia. In this regard, Bruno Latour’s ‘Actor-Network Theory’(ANT) and Gilbert Simondon’s ‘Transindividual Human-Machine Ensemble’ provide a useful framework for analysis. Analysis reveals that the total crisis of the near future portrayed in this work is due to 1)the relationship between human and nonhuman that are not appropriately controlled for technological development, 2)the mechanism of human control and detachment of nonhuman, 3)the succession of previous relations, and 4)the absence of new relations that have not yet been established. Therefore it is necessary to reflect the previous human-nonhuman network and to study and invent a new human-nonhuman network adapted to technological development. Inspite of the terrible apocalyptic factor, this work warns against a harmful ‘human-nonhuman network’ and suggests the transindividual ‘human-nonhuman ensemble.’ This novel also shows that the ontological phase of human can transit from the ‘unsustainable human’ that dominated nature to the ‘thrivable posthuman.’

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키워드

마가렛 애트우드 『오릭스와 크레이크』 지속불가능한 휴먼 번성가능한 포스트휴먼 개체초월적 포스트휴먼 인간-비인간 앙상블 Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake unsustainable human thrivable osthuman transindividual posthuman humannonhuman ensemble