Money Machines: Capitalism, Globalization and Our Posthuman Future

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Blewer George
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제32집, 361~382쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.12.30

영문 초록

This essay will examine to what extend representations of a posthuman future are either implicit within, or serve to complicate, narratives of global capitalism by localising the analysis within two Japanese animated films: Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Innocence (2004). The essay draws upon Donna Haraway's understanding of the cyborg to situate representations of the posthuman within both a critical frame-work and the discourses of global capitalism. The essay uses the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics in order to demonstrate the demobilizing and oppressive effects of global capitalism which succeeds in the creation of a technological underclass. The essay then turns its attention towards the technological resistance to the homogenizing attempts of global capitalism and the consequential reclaiming of certain social spaces. What emerges from this study is the image of the cyborg as both a consumer of global capital and a force of resistance.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Posthumanism and globalization

Ⅲ. Posthuman resistance to globalization

Ⅳ. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

포스트휴머니즘 세계화 자본주의 기술 사이보그 Posthumanism Globalization Capitalism Technology Cyborg