탈인간적 생태시의 가능성 연구 -이하석의 [투명한 속]을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study aims to explore the possibility of “post-human” ecological poetry as manifested in Lee Ha-seok’s poems. The “climate crisis” has emerged as the most urgent global issue of our time. In this context, our literature is interpellated to engage with the realm of “ecology.” What stance should poetry take in the era of “climate crisis” and the “Anthropocene”? This paper seeks to find answers to this question in Lee Ha-seok’s poetry. To this end, the study examines his first poetry collection, Transparent Interior(투명한 속), based on Bruno Latour’s “Actor-Network Theory” (ANT). ANT is a theory that focuses on the network of human and non-human actors, recognizing not only humans but also non-humans as individual actors. In this sense, ANT aligns with the direction pursued by Lee Ha-seok’s poetry and epistemology. In his poems, discarded objects, including waste materials and natural elements, form an “assemblage.” In Lee Ha-seok’s poetry, waste materials and natural elements establish a new “network.” This hybrid of waste and natural materials builds a new “landscape” and sometimes even speaks as the narrator. Through this, waste materials and natural objects are liberated as “actors,” rather than being mere “poetic subjects” subordinate to the “poetic narrator.” Lee Ha-seok states, “All beings are sacred.” The “sacredness” here resonates with the “wonder” felt in one’s hometown and nature. The poetic narrator walks a sacred path created by discarded objects and natural elements, encountering and standing in solidarity with both the “abandoned self” and the “sacred others.” The potential for new ecological poetry begins with moving away from anthropocentrism and liberating all non-humans previously subordinate to humans as “actors.” This study critiques the limitations of the long- standing poetic concept of the “objective correlative” and seeks to explore new prospects for “post-human” ecological poetry through Lee Ha-seok’s poetry.