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초록

Sisyphean by Denpow Torishima presents the imagination of the Anthropocene. This work depicts a future scenario when humans will degenerate into livestock (or slave) of extraterrestrial life on the “posthuman” earth, where human civilization has become extinct due to the accident of nanotechnology. In that process, changes in ecology would require fundamental transformation of human body for survival, and such fundamental changes would also appear in the relationship between humans and non-humans. Against the backdrop of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, this imagination is linked to the discourse on Anthropocene, on global warming and genocide of life. This work dismantles the anthropocentric value system and accuses its violent and hypocritical characteristics. This work resonates with various discourses on anthropocene today. Donna Haraway's ‘SF’, Levi Bryant's ‘Alien Phenomenology’, and Timothy Morton's ‘Hyperobject’ and ‘Rocking’ strategies can be evaluated as diagnoses of the anthropocene crisis situations and counter strategies. Hybridization between different species and human transformation in Sisyphean was imagined in the same context as ecological diversity and symbiosis ethics of the Anthropocene discourse.

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