@article{ART003345811},
author={Jang Youngji},
title={Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2026},
volume={83},
number={2},
pages={9-41}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jang Youngji
TI - Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2026
VL - 83
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 9
EP - 41
SN - 1598-3021
AB - Theatre studies has long centered human agents, marginalizing the nonhuman entities that co-produce dramatic events. This paper renders visible material agency and human-nonhuman entanglements in drama, drawing on new materialism and posthumanism. Using Donna Haraway’s cyborg and sympoiesis and Jane Bennett’s thing-power, assemblage, and distributed agency, it analyzes Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea. In La Conquête de la Toison d’or, the Golden Fleece functions as a material node assembling human and nonhuman forces, while the theatrical machine drives and redirects the dramatic action. In Medea, Medea is read as a hybrid subject traversing the boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and the material objects surrounding her are traced as co-producers of catastrophe. Medea’s appearance aboard the mēchanē is interpreted as the emergence of homo ex machina, a figure in which the human and nonhuman apparatus converge. This study extends posthumanist theatre studies to classical texts and proposes homo ex machina as an analytical concept for rethinking theatrical figures in which the human, the mechanical, and the divine converge.
KW - Homo ex machina;Hybrid Subject;La Conquête de la Toison d’or; Medea;Nonhuman Agency;Théâtre à machines
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Jang Youngji. (2026). Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 83(2), 9-41.
Jang Youngji. 2026, "Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.83, no.2 pp.9-41.
Jang Youngji "Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 83.2 pp.9-41 (2026) : 9.
Jang Youngji. Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea. 2026; 83(2), 9-41.
Jang Youngji. "Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 83, no.2 (2026) : 9-41.
Jang Youngji. Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 83(2), 9-41.
Jang Youngji. Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2026; 83(2) 9-41.
Jang Youngji. Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea. 2026; 83(2), 9-41.
Jang Youngji. "Entanglements of the Hybrid Subject and Nonhuman Agency: Corneille’s La Conquête de la Toison d’or and Euripides’ Medea" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 83, no.2 (2026) : 9-41.
