줄기세포와 북핵

• 영문명: Stem Cell and Nuclear Weapon: Dialectic of Myth and Enlightenment
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 윤민우(Minwoo Yoon)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제13권 2호, 269~297쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

영문 초록

Stem cell and nuclear weapon are a brilliant outcome of the instrumental reason developed since the Age of Enlightenment. Although the scientific inventions have not yet realized themselves, they share the modernistic tendencies of positivism, consensus, totality, and teleological progress. It has been often noted, however, that the enlightenment degraded itself to be myth and terror, from which it originally aimed to make individuals freed. The demystifying project of modernity has been carried into the irrational and unreal realm of fantasy and simulation. The two scientific outcomes are, in fact, more simulacra than real things, more a text (verba) than a thing (res). The stem cell, no more than a potential, has been propagated to be a discursive domain of non-experts from every corner of our society; the amalgamation of science and public myth, it is still effective to cover up its reality. Likewise, the nuclear discourse is not possible without fantasizing the horror of its end result. Mostly being composed of illogical and extempore exchange of diplomatic documents, the strategies for its deterrence replace the nuclear weapon itself. A repository of nuclear weapons is, in this sense, none other than an archive of texts. The stem cell and nuclear weapon of today are simulacra of the things to come, which displace the real and thereby obviate their realization. The project of modernity has dialectically turned into myth; ironically, postmodernity, in turn, undoes the mystified enlightenment by identifying logical blind spots (aporias) in it.

목차

1. 줄기세포: 과학의 서사와 텍스트로서의 과학

2. 핵 담론: 핵무기 창고와 문서 보관소

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Abstract

키워드

줄기세포 핵담론 이성 계몽 신화 근대성 포스트모던 텍스트 종말론 시물라시옹 stem cell nuclear criticism reason enlightenment simulation myth modernity postmodern apocalypse