피에르 위그의 <After ALife Ahead>에 나타난 공존의 네트워크 - 브뤼노 라투르의 '비근대' 개념을 중심으로

Abstract

This study intends to contemplate the feature of the concept of being a hybrid represented in After ALife Ahead by Pierre Huyghe through the concept of “nonmodern” by the French philosopher, Bruno Latour. As Huyghe’s signature work, After ALife Ahead was a hybrid ecosystem where the boundaries between humans and nonhumans, nature and society, and reality and the digital disappeared, and has been a process of the coevolution of various existences. Latour proposes taking ontology as a starting point and altering our interpretation of understanding the world from the epistemology of separation to that of relationships. The laboratory, from the perspective of Latour, is a place where a hybrid is generated via science and technology instead of an ontological separation between society and nature. From this viewpoint, After ALife Ahead can be interpreted as a place where a hybrid occurs and also originates in the same manner as Latour’s laboratory and be interpreted using the four features of it: first, a hybrid is produced by technoscience; second, it is impossible to make a prediction for the laboratory due to a translation rendered by the dynamic activity function of nonhumans; third, the laboratory on its own is a place of hybrid and an origin; and fourth, due to its operation based on social support, it is far from an “autonomy.” In conclusion, Huyghe also states that we, who lead a life as modern people, should seriously consider coexistence and change our attitude to life as non-modern people.