『리포제션 맘보』: 포스트휴먼 시대와 문화산업 = The Repossession Mambo: Posthuman Age and Culture Industry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

While there are many ways to chart the various paths posthumanist thinking takes, posthumanism has something to do with questioning humanism and overcoming the binary oppositions upon which humanist thinking is based. Humanism, in its anthropocentric from, is based on the idea that the human being is defined in terms that are radically different from other non-human entities such as animals, monsters, and cyborgs and that human being has a privileged role to play in existence. When Descartes writes about what it means to be human, the truth of the human lies on the rational mind, which is entirely distinct from the body. Yet these binary oppositions simply do not hold in an era where the binary opposition between human and technology is breaking down. As biotechnology and technology engineering have been triumphantly developed, people have chosen to use technology and become cyborgs, which shows how and why the humanist division between the human and other non-humans no longer holds. As one of the known posthumanists N.
Katherine Hayles points out, we have always been posthuman.
Posthumanism rejects a strict binary opposition between a human subject and an instrumental technological tool for the ends of the human and shows that the human is substantially entwined with technology. The symbiotic relationship between the human and technology causes the human to feel attracted to technology but it causes the human to be gripped with fear of being displaced by technology at the same time.
Science fiction literature and films show the attraction to technology and the fear of technology. Science fiction chooses to go back to humanism and the ‘true’ human nature to take care of the fear of technology when the unpleasant posthuman future is exposed. The anonymous narrator in a novel The Repossession Mambo and Remy in a movie Repo Men are no exception. Both of them cling to what makes the human as the human to figure out the true human nature. The way The Repossession Mambo and Repo Men appropriate posthumanism demonstrates that we need to understand the posthuman to know the human better and that understanding the posthuman is another way of understanding the human.

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