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@article{ART002835605},
author={song eun ju},
title={The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2022},
volume={15},
number={1},
pages={207-236},
doi={10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207}

TY - JOUR
AU - song eun ju
TI - The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2022
VL - 15
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 207
EP - 236
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This thesis aims to analyze Snowpiercer and Interstella to explore what significance geoengineering has in terms of politics and culture. Geoengineering, in spite of its technological defectiveness and devastating potential side effects, is emerging as a feasible solution for climate change. However, Snowpiercer shows a skeptical attitude in a fiasco of CW-7, solar radiation management technique. Moreover, geoengineering reveals fundamental problems in its anthopocentricism that it still presumes humankind is the only actor to deal with crisis in the Anthropocene. On the contrary, Interstella adheres to the belief in an independent and autonomous human subject to overcome environmental disasters. It is based on the American Frontier spirit that exhaustion of resource and social conflicts can be alleviated by expanding territory. American expansionism is involved with consumer capitalism to consider nature as an available resource for human use. Therefore, despite a optimistic ending for human future in the movie, it lacks a reflection on anthropocentric and materialistic modern civilization. Snowpiercer focuses on imagining the world beyond the closed door of the train, where it is free from human control. Survivors should learn to coexist with other creatures in the frozen earth and interweave new geostory with them.
KW - geoengineering;the Anthropocene;the Capitalocene;Snowpiercer;Interstella
DO - 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207
ER -

song eun ju. (2022). The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 15(1), 207-236.

song eun ju. 2022, "The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.15, no.1 pp.207-236. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207

song eun ju "The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 15.1 pp.207-236 (2022) : 207.

song eun ju. The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella. 2022; 15(1), 207-236. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207

song eun ju. "The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 15, no.1 (2022) : 207-236.doi: 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207

song eun ju. The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 15(1), 207-236. doi: 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207

song eun ju. The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2022; 15(1) 207-236. doi: 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207

song eun ju. The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella. 2022; 15(1), 207-236. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207

song eun ju. "The Political and Cultural Significance of Geoengineering in the Anthropocene in Snowpiercer and Interstella" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 15, no.1 (2022) : 207-236.doi: 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.207