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Analysis on Dis-embodiment and Re-embodiment of Techno-body from the perspective of Techno-feminism

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2020, 13(2), pp.61-89
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2020.13.2.61
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 7, 2020
  • Accepted : October 22, 2020
  • Published : October 30, 2020

Suan Lee 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The most important and simultaneously ambiguous theoretical concepts in the analysis of techno-body, which is regarded as dis-embodied figure in posthumanism, are ‘corporeality’, ‘gender identity’, and the dimension of ‘post-gender’ in the theoretical reflection on techno-body from the techno-feminist perspective. I analyze the different processes of dis-embodiment and re-embodiment in the comparing of Maria in the movie <Metropolis> and Ava in the movie <Ex Machina>. It is necessary to redefine the concept of corporeality of techno-body as hybrid form of ‘human’ and ‘machine’ in the theoretical application of techno-feminism. Corporeality of techno-body has no more the meaning of organic body, but the meaning of the floating body according to the programming process of techno-body. The dis-embodiment of ‘Maschinen-Mensch’ Maria in the movie <Metropolis> and re-embodiment of human body of A.I. robot Ava in the movie <Ex Machina> confirm that the hybrid subject between human and machine establishes in a techno-body as a robot. In this context the hybrid subject can be considered as the main theoretical point of techno-feminism.

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