고도 기술시대의 몸(2): 포스트휴먼 신체론 = Body in a High-Tech Age(2): Techno-Biopower Approach to Post-Body

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Various advanced technologies of today such as IT, BT, NT and CT are gearing toward an open system characterized by being mixed, altered and reformed rather than existing individually or independently. In such a current, our body is being reduced to the system of information subject to a series of (re)constructing processes of decoding-recoding. In short, human body is now considered as the changeable entity where constant revision, renovation, transformation, augmentation and creation actively take place. Cells extracted from our body are being collected and patented only to be turned into the product that can be bought and sold. This implies that our body is being vested in the dynamics of information technology system closely related with the development of capitalism.
Thus, this article seeks to 1) provide a brief overview of technological drivers that lead us to the Post-Human Age, 2) assess the construal aspect of post-body being subject to the constant modification, 3) detect the characteristics of post-body based on the concepts of cyborg and wormhole, 4) reconsider the key issues in light of techno-biopower paradigm and 5) explore the route of the politics of body in a high-tech society.