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This thesis aims to explore the different ways in which posthuman subjects are constructed in Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts. The novel suggests two opposed posthuman characters, Microft Ward and Eric Sanderson. The former is a gentleman scientist in 19th century, who decides to be immortal and puts his scheme into practice, which was to breakup his personality into small components and copy it into other body. It reflects on Transhumanist view that consciousness can be separated from the body and instantiated in any substrate in the selfsame way. Ward implemented the standardizing process with internet and digital database to maintain homogeneity of his several bodies, and thus the urge of survival ends up transforming him into a machine. In the other hand, Eric is left a mere shell of his self by the attack of a conceptual shark, losing all of his memory and identity. He goes on a journey to recover his lost self, but in his pursuit, he realizes that his self is a flexible and changable being embodied and interconnected in the environment rather than a fixed and constant one. He cannot recover the original self, but becomes another version of Eric Sanderson, who still retains some parts of the first Eric but has been changed.

목차

I. 들어가며
 II. 마이크로프트 워드: 탈체현된 정보 패턴으로서의 포스트휴먼
 III. 에릭 샌더슨: 또 다른 포스트휴먼 주체의 가능성
 IV. 체현된 의식과 복수적 주체
 V. 나가며
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저자

• 송은주 [ Song, Eunju | 건국대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810