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The Posthuman Dream, Choe U-Ram’s “Anima Machine (Mechanical Living Being)”

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2021, 14(2), pp.55-84
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2021.14.2.55
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 7, 2021
  • Accepted : October 10, 2021
  • Published : October 31, 2021

Jaeeun Lee 1

1가천대학교 아시아문화연구소

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ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the allegory of Anima machine that U-Ram Choe known as a kinetic artist has been making since 2000. I take a closer look at the Posthuman symptoms of the Anima machine. The kinetic element of his works is intended to symbolize the emergence and the self-organizaation in the living system. His mechanical living beings have the value of beauty that anthropocentrism does not allow non-humans. These aspects provide an opportunity to contemplate the posthuman sensitivity against the aesthetic based the dichotomy between humans and non-humans in which Man defined. Thus this paper is intended to verify that Anima machines function as the allegory of symbioses between humans and non-humans that displaces anthropocentrism. Furthermore, this study will be meaningful in that it reveals the reason why Choe has been examining the symbiotic relationship between humans and non-humans in the course of techno-futurism of Korean society since the 1990s.

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