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Life, Evolution, and Transcendental Ontology : Focusing on The Early Short Stories of Kim Bo-young

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2023, 16(1), pp.7-29
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2023.16.1.7
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 8, 2023
  • Accepted : April 24, 2023
  • Published : April 30, 2023

Oh, Youn-ho 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Science fiction has long been concerned with the evolution of humanity, and has offered a variety of imaginings of the ways in which science and technology intervene in or control the evolution of life. This paper focuses on Kim Bo-young's early short stories, covering a range of evolutionary imaginaries from biological to mechanical to mythological. It attempts to identify the unique speculative fiction features that explore life and evolution, human, machine, and animal identity, and the nature of 'life'. In chapter 2, I analyzed how the evolution and degeneration of individual beings are reproduced based on Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation, and in chapter 3, I analyzed how the dismissal of robotics deals with the competition between robot and human species. In Chapter 4, I analyze the ontology and meaning of life as we move toward transcendent evolution by examining the fantastic situation of species evolution within individual life.

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