Serial Number: http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A106519389

Title: A Study on Humans as Posthumans : Focusing on body and vision, virtual and real

Author: HUI-TEAK KIM

Journal: culture technology research institute

Vol: (32)

Pages: 303-329

Date: 2019.

Register Information: KCI

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<Abstract>

The purpose of this paper is to clarify that the perception of the human future, the Posthuman, begins with the imperfection of the human body. To achieve this goal, we began our research from André Breton's ‘Declaration of Surrealism’. Breton was interested in Freud's theory that studied imperfections of modern reason. Hal Foster at this point connected the theories of Freud and Breton through the uncanny phenomenon. Foster destroyed the ideal body combinations established by traditions and norms, and recreates the body's recombination through desire as an art. We note that Breton's concept of ‘imagination’ is at work in this process of the recreation. In the post-human age, the human body is infinitely disassembled and recombined. From this,the discrimination of the human body under the influence of rationalism must be restructured. Deleuze's theory of ‘Body without organs’ begins with the dissolution of stereotypes about the body. The function of the human body is limited by the norm. The human body, however, can function in many different ways. Finally, we introduced discussions related to human vision. Vision represents human imperfection. Human ‘seeing behavior’ is governed by culture and customs. Humans do not aim to see exactly. Humans creatively use their inaccurate visual cognition. This human creativity is a fundamental feature of the Posthuman that we are dealing with in this paper.