기술적 기후 재앙과 더스트 생태학자의 환영 - 김초엽의 『지구 끝의 온실』을 중심으로 = Technological Climate Catastrophe and Dust Ecologist's Illusion- Focused on Kim Cho-Yeop’s The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper analyses the evolution of various (non)human beings and posthumans who attempt to adapt technologically in the face of climate catastrophe, as represented in Kim Cho-Yeop's The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth. In doing so, it reveals the tragedy of human technological intervention in global life, explores the ecological implications of hybrid life on Earth, and discusses the ethics of scientists as exemplified by A-Young, a dust ecologist living in the post-dust era.
The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth depicts the process of human and biological species being wiped out by the ‘Dust Fall’ created by a failed human experiment to solve the climate crisis. The work shows how the dust fall re-conceptualises natural and urban spaces, transforming the planet into one giant laboratory. It emphasises the intimate connection between science and technology and global life.
In this novel, Dust and Mosbana are hybrids created by human technological intervention, and their confrontation with their environment puts them on a path of extreme proliferation and extinction in the global ecological environment. This work is not a record of the sympoiesis of humans, non-humans, and plants, but a record of the human-centred history of the earth, where humans control, suppress, and quarantine hybrids.
The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth reveals the survival instinct of the beings on Earth during the Dust Age, showing that the Dome is not equal for all humans, and questioning the anti-human behaviour of the Dome citizens who only want to survive for themselves. A scene in which dust ecologist A-Young imagines a moment of symbiosis between humans, dust and mosbana in the Prime Village laboratory, where mosbanas were first grown, critiques this anthropocentrism.