포스트휴먼 아담과 이브 : <월-E>가 제시하는 새로운 공존의 가능성과 한계
Posthuman Adam and Eve: A New Possibility of Coexistence and its Limits in Wall-E
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This paper explores how Pixar’s animation film Wall-E presents a possibility of a newly assembled relationship among human and non-human beings against the backdrop of apocalyptic garbage dystopia. In Wall-E’s narrative, the titular robot hero, Wall-E, has cleaned the waste-covered and therefore uninhabitable Earth for 700 years, developing human qualities like preference and desire through every day’s labor and movement. Meanwhile, human beings on board the spaceship Axiom have lost their humanity indulgent in conveniences provided by technology and consumerism. This paper notes that the Axiom’s return to the earth is achieved through cooperation among human, machine, and things, and that they coevolve in the history they cowrite after the return. Auto, a navigator robot which obstructs people’s return, represents a pessimistic scenario in which superintelligence is prone to instrumental convergence, which prioritizes its own goal regardless of human welfare or safety. While Wall-E provides great insight on the relationship between human and machine, its gender perspective is subject to criticism in that male and female are eventually fixed to their traditional gender roles. This regression, beyond being a minor weakness, implies that there still functions the anthropocentric thinking, which underlay the destruction of the Earth, and betokens that this newly begun history is likely to follow the similar steps to apocalypse.
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This paper explores how Pixar’s animation film Wall-E presents a possibility of a newly assembled relationship among human and non-human beings against the backdrop of apocalyptic garbage dystopia. In Wall-E’s narrative, the titular robot hero, Wall-E, has cleaned the waste-covered and therefore uninhabitable Earth for 700 years, developing human qualities like preference and desire through every day’s labor and movement. Meanwhile, human beings on board the spaceship Axiom have lost their humanity indulgent in conveniences provided by technology and consumerism. This paper notes that the Axiom’s return to the earth is achieved through cooperation among human, machine, and things, and that they coevolve in the history they cowrite after the return. Auto, a navigator robot which obstructs people’s return, represents a pessimistic scenario in which superintelligence is prone to instrumental convergence, which prioritizes its own goal regardless of human welfare or safety. While Wall-E provides great insight on the relationship between human and machine, its gender perspective is subject to criticism in that male and female are eventually fixed to their traditional gender roles. This regression, beyond being a minor weakness, implies that there still functions the anthropocentric thinking, which underlay the destruction of the Earth, and betokens that this newly begun history is likely to follow the similar steps to apocalypse.
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