한낙원 SF, 교란된 주체의 포지션과 포스트휴먼

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the position of the subject(M) is disturbed and seeks change, in the Han Nakwon’s SF. To this end, this paper examined ‘what is the position of the subject needed in our time’ by using Rosi Bridotti’s concept of ‘nomadic subjects’. Through this, this paper was able to confirm two new meanings. First, in the �Venus expedition� and the �Space Route� created in the 1960s, disturbed subjects try to escape from anthropocentrism and geocentrism at the boundaries of ‘space’ and ‘outside the Earth’. However, disturbed subjects fail to form a cross–sectional alliance with others, and in this respect, the two works stop at the symptomatic perception of posthumanism. This shows that conflicts and contradictions in the global community in the 1960s worked as many limitations in expanding the scope of human thinking. Second, in the �"Space City"�, �"Earth Boy Back"� created in the 1970s and 1980s, heterogeneous subjects cross various entities and attempt to change into ransverse subjects as they cross species. The posthuman subjectivity shown in the two works allows humans to recognize that they are in the process of continuously negotiating, understanding, and coordinating with various others in ‘now–here’. In this way, Han Nakwon, a pioneer of Korean science fiction, can give meaning to a writer who has been steadily exploring “who we are” and “how we are formed as a group” since the 1960s through an unfamiliar style called “SF”. Han Nakwon’s SF is of literary significance in that it allowed the reader to imagine new senses of otherness through the “relational logic of being here together even though we are different.”