포스트휴먼과 기술적 상상력 (Posthuman and Technoimagination)

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· 발행기관 : 한국기호학회
· 수록지 정보 : 기호학 연구 / 26권 / 59 ~ 82페이지
· 저자명 : 조윤경

초록

This thesis's approach to exploring technoimagination is different from the traditional concept that it embodies imagination using technology. First, technoimagination is an imagination empowered by technology. Technology is implemented by imagination on one hand, but it sometimes sparks imagination on the other hand. The latter one is far more meaningful technoimagination for our times. Second, technoimagination is prompted by the in-between space or combination of technology and art. In this case, technology is more than a tool and goes beyond mere instrumentality. Third, technoimagination is provoked by the in-between space or fusion of technology and human beings. It refers to posthuman imagination where human bodies are not the ones that control technology, but become technology itself. Posthuman raises a question on such binary oppositions as human being versus machine and human being versus technology, and encourages reflection on what life means to us.
Technoimagination in an era of posthuman and post-nature tends to transcend the boundary of lives that we are familiar with, and calls for a shift of conventional paradigm among human being, art and technology. Imagination has been considered a territory of human beings, but technoimagination expands the territory to the point where human beings and technology are combined. Technoimagination presumes that machines are not tools or instruments but independent entities, and focuses on not representing, but shaping and transforming the world. In this sense, the creation involves collaboration between human beings and creators, and machines and creators, and the human beings-creators are not the ones to make, but to let the machines-creators function and to watch their creations proceeding. Posthuman technoimagnation ultimately aims at uniting creators, creations and audience by making human beings parts of creations.
Technoimagination turns knowledge into ‘immersed experience’, and therefore brought changes that lead my self and others to share our ‘bodies’ and allow the world to be gradually absorbed into the inside of human beings. The fact that human beings and reality are ‘augmented’ through technoimagination (posthuman and augmented reality, respectively) does not mean the strengthening of human beings and reality. It means that human beings and reality are getting confusing because my self and others, virtuality and reality, and imagination and experience appear overlapped.
In an age of Nano, Bio, Information, Cognitive Technologies-continue to be changed, advanced and converged, nobody can predict which directions technoimagination will head toward. Yet one thing is clear; Technoimagination is accelerating cultural evolution with an emphasis on complexity, emergence, and autopoïesis. Technoimagination holds undefined potentials. If we are transhuman in a time of transition to becoming posthuman, we should not be indiscriminately hostile toward the combination of human beings and technology, and of art and technology. We have to be rational and proactively seek for the undefined potentials.

영어초록

This thesis's approach to exploring technoimagination is different from the traditional concept that it embodies imagination using technology. First, technoimagination is an imagination empowered by technology. Technology is implemented by imagination on one hand, but it sometimes sparks imagination on the other hand. The latter one is far more meaningful technoimagination for our times. Second, technoimagination is prompted by the in-between space or combination of technology and art. In this case, technology is more than a tool and goes beyond mere instrumentality. Third, technoimagination is provoked by the in-between space or fusion of technology and human beings. It refers to posthuman imagination where human bodies are not the ones that control technology, but become technology itself. Posthuman raises a question on such binary oppositions as human being versus machine and human being versus technology, and encourages reflection on what life means to us.
Technoimagination in an era of posthuman and post-nature tends to transcend the boundary of lives that we are familiar with, and calls for a shift of conventional paradigm among human being, art and technology. Imagination has been considered a territory of human beings, but technoimagination expands the territory to the point where human beings and technology are combined. Technoimagination presumes that machines are not tools or instruments but independent entities, and focuses on not representing, but shaping and transforming the world. In this sense, the creation involves collaboration between human beings and creators, and machines and creators, and the human beings-creators are not the ones to make, but to let the machines-creators function and to watch their creations proceeding. Posthuman technoimagnation ultimately aims at uniting creators, creations and audience by making human beings parts of creations.
Technoimagination turns knowledge into ‘immersed experience’, and therefore brought changes that lead my self and others to share our ‘bodies’ and allow the world to be gradually absorbed into the inside of human beings. The fact that human beings and reality are ‘augmented’ through technoimagination (posthuman and augmented reality, respectively) does not mean the strengthening of human beings and reality. It means that human beings and reality are getting confusing because my self and others, virtuality and reality, and imagination and experience appear overlapped.
In an age of Nano, Bio, Information, Cognitive Technologies-continue to be changed, advanced and converged, nobody can predict which directions technoimagination will head toward. Yet one thing is clear; Technoimagination is accelerating cultural evolution with an emphasis on complexity, emergence, and autopoïesis. Technoimagination holds undefined potentials. If we are transhuman in a time of transition to becoming posthuman, we should not be indiscriminately hostile toward the combination of human beings and technology, and of art and technology. We have to be rational and proactively seek for the undefined potentials.

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