동아시아 영화와 행성적 정치성 = East Asian Cinema and Planetary Politics

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article interrogates the ways contemporary East Asian cinema and literature rearticulate environmental catastrophe beyond the logic of apocalyptic spectacle, elaborating alternative imaginaries of the Anthropocene (or, more precisely, the Capitalocene). Through close readings of Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, Japanese animated features including Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You and Ishida Hiroyasu’s Drifting Home, and Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy, the essay argues that these texts displace terminal narratives of extinction with problematics of social recomposition, ecological entanglement, and planetary precariousness. Snowpiercer stages the imbrication of climate engineering, class domination, and capitalist reproduction within the train as a self-enclosed apparatus of survival, while its concluding orientation toward life beyond the train functions as a speculative opening onto socio-ecological renewal outside industrial modernity. Recent Japanese animation, by contrast, mobilises a mode of urban animism to recalibrate human–nonhuman relations, construing climate change not solely as an imminent threat but as a condition that demands ethical, affective, and collective forms of adaptation. Liu’s trilogy radicalises this trajectory by extending ecological thought to a cosmological register, reframing scarcity, competition, and environmental instability as structural determinants of a hostile universe rather than contingent disturbances located on a singular planet.