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Bioart in the Chthulucene

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2021, 14(1), pp.79-116
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.79
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : February 27, 2021
  • Accepted : April 15, 2021
  • Published : April 30, 2021

Jungha Hwang 1 Hong, Sungook 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

How should we live in an era of crisis in the 21st century, when the extinction of species and climate change caused by human activities threaten the future of the planet? To these questions, a well-known feminist science studies scholar Donna Haraway presents the concept of the ‘Chthulucene’, which chooses to stay with troubles and imagines the future of tomorrow by shaping new kinds of relationships with various human beings, animals, and non-human beings. This paper tries to reinterpret three well-known bioart works by using an insight of ‘biophilosophy’ of the philosopher Eugene Thacker, which understands life as a process that constantly changes in a complex network, as well as the sympoietic view of life of the Chthulucene. This re-examination of bioart works will bring a richer and more practical interpretation of contemporary bioart.

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