@article{ART003259239},
author={PARK, LEE JIN and Kim Byeongjin},
title={Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2025},
volume={18},
number={2},
pages={51-84},
doi={10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51}
TY - JOUR
AU - PARK, LEE JIN
AU - Kim Byeongjin
TI - Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2025
VL - 18
IS - 2
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 51
EP - 84
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This article reads Murata Sayaka’s Shōmetsu Sekai from the vantage point of bioethics. The experimental city “Eden” is depicted as an insulated regime that, through a hygiene ideology and biopolitical apparatuses, governs love, sex, and reproduction in the language of “safety” and “efficiency.” Focusing on the “affective remainder” that slips through this seamless management, the study analyzes Eden’s management and rule mechanisms via Mary Douglas’s concepts of pollution/cleanliness and Michel Foucault’s theory of biopolitics. It further reinterprets that remainder as an ethical and ontological event through Emmanuel Levinas’s “face of the Other” and Karen Barad’s notion of “entanglement.” On this basis, it proposes three principles of a “ethics of attunement” as an alternative for restoring the quality of relations damaged by the system: (1) the right to relation, (2) clarification of responsibility, and (3) boundary-setting and preventive responsibility. In conclusion, Shōmetsu Sekai is shown to go beyond a merely dystopian warning to explore the possibility of a new relational ethics demanded by the technological age.
KW - Murata Sayaka;Shōmetsu Sekai;ethics of attunement;biopolitics;right to relation;face of the Other
DO - 10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
ER -
PARK, LEE JIN and Kim Byeongjin. (2025). Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 18(2), 51-84.
PARK, LEE JIN and Kim Byeongjin. 2025, "Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.18, no.2 pp.51-84. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
PARK, LEE JIN, Kim Byeongjin "Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 18.2 pp.51-84 (2025) : 51.
PARK, LEE JIN, Kim Byeongjin. Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai. 2025; 18(2), 51-84. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
PARK, LEE JIN and Kim Byeongjin. "Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 18, no.2 (2025) : 51-84.doi: 10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
PARK, LEE JIN; Kim Byeongjin. Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 18(2), 51-84. doi: 10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
PARK, LEE JIN; Kim Byeongjin. Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2025; 18(2) 51-84. doi: 10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
PARK, LEE JIN, Kim Byeongjin. Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai. 2025; 18(2), 51-84. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
PARK, LEE JIN and Kim Byeongjin. "Responsive Life, an Insulated World - A Bioethical Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Shōmetsu Sekai" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 18, no.2 (2025) : 51-84.doi: 10.22901/trans.2025.18.2.51
