기후 위기와 식인 자본주의를 전환하는 생태-사회적 연대와 상상력 - 2020년대 한국소설을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study examines recent Korean novels that address the climate crisis based on the concept of ‘Capitalocene’, which emphasizes that the ecological crisis is the result of obsessive growth policies and resource exploitation, not nature’s retaliation, and ‘cannibal capitalism’, which destroys all areas of life and human living conditions. This is because only after recognizing where and who is responsible for the cracks in material metabolism that have disturbed the earth system, can we detect ecological and technological imagination in ways other than conventional technology, power, and capital. To this end, we will read and analyze urban novels to see how the compulsion to accumulate capital and grow, represented by apartment and urban development, is closely linked to the acceleration of the climate crisis. In doing so, we will analyze how the capitalist system degrades not only the economic but also the ecological lives of people on the planet. It also analyzes societies where environmental disasters have become routine, revealing how cannibal capitalism perpetuates this crisis. The book argues that environmental and socioeconomic problems can be solved by thinking about them together rather than separately.