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Half a Century after “the Death of Man”:Labor, Life and Language of the Machine

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2020, 13(1), pp.7-27
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.7
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 31, 2020
  • Accepted : April 16, 2020
  • Published : April 30, 2020

Chan-Woong Lee 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The characteristic of contemporary science and technology lies in trying to invade the human mind and body in order to change their nature. For the study of these posthuman phenomena, a fusion study of humanities and technology is needed. The preceding research involving posthumans can be categorized into four major categories, each of which could be called technocentric, deconstructive, critical and materialistic posthumanisms. Our view, which distinguishes us from these, is acquired by overlapping Foucault's archaeological periodization in history and Deleuze and Guattari’s machinism. It is the labor, life and language of the machine that replace the place after “the death of man”. Concrete and detailed analyses of this changes will be an important task afterwards.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.