『클라라와 태양』 속 안드로이드-신체의 ‘사용’과 ‘감응’ 그리고 로봇-현존재 연구
Study on ‘Use’ and ‘Affect’ of Android-body and Robot-Dasein in Klara and the Sun
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This essay aims to examine complexity of posthumanism and beyond by investigating genealogically meaning of use and existential foundation of affective android, Klara, in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Klara and the Sun. As theoretical framework, this essay utilizes mostly Giorgio Agamben’s genealogical and comprehensive study on the discourse of use and apparatus of anthropological machine in Use of Bodies. Klara, so-called AF (Artificial Friend), is an android that parents buy to provide children with companionship. Klara has tactful ability in detecting human emotions and feelings as well as surreptitiously having and expressing her own. Klara accidentally bears witness to three miraculous events related to the Sun and begins to believe that the Sun has power to resurrect the dead. Josie, Klara’s teenager master, has an illness that can kill her. Klara, a meticulous observer, learns more about human emotions, feelings, and relations to become a sentient android who unveils the affective relations, especially love and loneliness, between human/machine bodies. Klara transcends her own existential ground and sacrifice herself to show how the ontological threshold between human and machine is compromised by anthropological machine. Klara in the end becomes an android-Dasein.
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This essay aims to examine complexity of posthumanism and beyond by investigating genealogically meaning of use and existential foundation of affective android, Klara, in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Klara and the Sun. As theoretical framework, this essay utilizes mostly Giorgio Agamben’s genealogical and comprehensive study on the discourse of use and apparatus of anthropological machine in Use of Bodies. Klara, so-called AF (Artificial Friend), is an android that parents buy to provide children with companionship. Klara has tactful ability in detecting human emotions and feelings as well as surreptitiously having and expressing her own. Klara accidentally bears witness to three miraculous events related to the Sun and begins to believe that the Sun has power to resurrect the dead. Josie, Klara’s teenager master, has an illness that can kill her. Klara, a meticulous observer, learns more about human emotions, feelings, and relations to become a sentient android who unveils the affective relations, especially love and loneliness, between human/machine bodies. Klara transcends her own existential ground and sacrifice herself to show how the ontological threshold between human and machine is compromised by anthropological machine. Klara in the end becomes an android-Dasein.
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